CCA-F Claude Certified Architect - Complete Exam Preparation (Udemy.com)
Prepare for the CCA-F exam with Claude API, tool use, MCP, agentic architecture, evals, and real project practice.
Created by: Dmytro Vasyliev
Last updated October 2026
What you will learn
- Understand the CCA-F Exam Format, the Five Domains, the official task statements, and the Six Production Scenarios so you know exactly what to expect.
- Build a real project, ShopAssist AI, with the Claude API - covering multi-turn conversations, System Prompts, and Model Selection.
- Master prompt engineering, eval loops, grading criteria, few-shot examples, structured output, extraction, and tool use.
- Design effective Tools, integrate MCP, and build multi-agent Agentic Architectures with Coordinators, Subagents, and Session State.
- Configure Claude Code for real teams: CLAUDE rules and memory, sessions, workflows, Skills, and CI-CD integration.
- And much more to enhance your skills as a Claude Certified Architect.
How it compares
Against the other 1,182 rated Udemy courses in IT & Software on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.3 out of 5higher than 20% of them
- Reviews146#907 of 1,183 by number of reviews
- Length6.3 hourslonger than 54% of them
- Last updatedOctober 2026more recently than 97% of them
Course Description
This course is a practical, structured way to prepare for the Claude Certified Architect (CCA-F) exam. You'll work through the five official exam domains, from Prompt Engineering to Agentic Architecture, while building a real project, ShopAssist AI, with the Claude API. Along the way you'll practice Tool Design, MCP Integration, and Claude Code Configuration for real workflows. Each domain includes short lessons, role plays, and quizzes to help you learn step by step.
What's in this course?
Start with the Course & Exam Orientation: the exam format, the five domains, exam blueprint, and the six official production scenarios.
Set up your Course Project & API Foundations with ShopAssist AI, covering Claude API requests, conversation history, and system prompts.
Cover Domain 4 (Part 1) - Prompt Engineering & Evaluation, including eval loops, output grading, and explicit criteria with few-shot examples.
Cover Domain 4 (Part 2) - Structured Output & Extraction using Tool Schemas, validation, retries, and batch processing.
Cover Domain 2 - Tool Design & MCP Integration, from the agentic loop to structured errors and MCP configuration.
Cover Domain 1 - Agentic Architecture & Orchestration, including coordinators, subagents, task decomposition, and session state.
Cover Domain 3 - Claude Code Configuration & Workflows, from CLAUDE rules to CI-CD integration.
Finish with Domain 5 - Context Management & Reliability, covering escalation patterns, error propagation, and human review workflows.
This Course includes
Theory and Practice: Short, focused lessons with clear explanations and real examples (3–10 minutes each).
Udemy Certificate: Receive a certificate of completion after finishing the course.
Support: Get direct help from the instructor through the Q&A section whenever you have questions.
Meet your instructor!
Dmytro Vasyliev - Senior Front-end Engineer with more than 10 years of professional experience in developing complex Web Applications. I have extensive experience with React and other frameworks, having used it in various projects to build dynamic and efficient user interfaces.
Do you need to be concerned?
Join our course today to learn how to become a Claude Certified Architect!
Instructor Details
- 4.3 Rating
146 Reviews
Dmytro Vasyliev
I’m a Senior Frontend Engineer with 10+ years of experience shipping real products — currently at Doccle, a Belgian platform with 2.5 million users, where I lead the React migration.
On Udemy, I’ve taught 220k+ students across 19 courses covering React, Next.js, Node.js, and AI coding tools like Claude Code, Github Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf and others.
I don’t teach theory. I teach what works in production.
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Reviews
By Chandrasekar Duraisamy on 9/27/2026
Very neatly explained and presented. Roleplays are real knowledge testers.
By Subhajit Mitra on 9/6/2026
To the point and precise content. This along with Claude official courses should be sufficient to pass the exam.
By Muneeswar Kasaram on 8/23/2026
Overall, the course is kind of okay, but it would have been much better with a slower explanation, more information, and more real-time examples. Also, in the practice quizzes, there should have been more questions with real certification examples.
By Nitin Gupta on 8/16/2026
Each topic is covered perfectlly an in detail.
By Saroj Shrestha on 8/16/2026
Good explaination and fast paced for someone who already knows llm and different architectures. It will be difficult for the newcomers though.
By Chris Mcmillon on 8/10/2026
Pretty good content in here, but it is clearly AI generated with very little QA. The slide graphics were AI slop and it's distracting. The course structure touches the topics, but the "project" is just some sample files that occasionally get referenced with code examples, not the capstone it's made out to be. I still got some useful information out of it.
By Sumit Srivastava on 8/8/2026
I found hard time understanding the accent of instructor. So, I couldn't finish this course.
By Oleg Antonov on 7/16/2026
Took this to prep for the CCA-F exam and it worked. Goes through all five domains with a real project, ShopAssist AI, so it's hands-on, not just theory. Tool design, MCP, and agentic architecture parts especially made things click. Felt genuinely ready for the exam after finishing. Recommend if you're serious about the cert.
By Oleksandr Kors on 7/15/2026
Perfect! I really enjoyed it. Great structure and clear explanations
By Dana Kulychenko on 7/13/2026
Thanks a lot for the course! For me CCA-F part was extremely useful.
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