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Claude Certified Architect Foundations Certification Exam — Development skill for Claude Code

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Unofficial practice exam for the Claude Certified Architect – Foundations certification.

How to install Claude Certified Architect Foundations Certification Exam

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open OlivierAlter/Claude-Certified-Architect-Foundations-Certification-Exam and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Claude Certified Architect Foundations Certification Exam does

Unofficial practice exam for the Claude Certified Architect – Foundations certification. 77 scenario-based questions + interactive Claude Code skill.

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README

Claude Certified Architect – Foundations: Practice Exam

Built by [Olivier Legris](https://www.alterhq.com), Claude Ambassador and co-founder of [Alter](https://www.alterhq.com) — a macOS native, model-agnostic Claude Cowork for advanced users.

This was built using publicly available information and is not part of the Claude Ambassador program. Anthropic is not involved in any form with this project.

A community-built practice exam for the **Claude Certified Architect – Foundations** certification by Anthropic.

77 scenario-based questions across 5 domains, reverse-engineered from the official exam guide. Includes an interactive Claude Code skill to run the exam in your terminal.

Exam Structure

Domain	Topic	Weight	Questions
1	Agentic Architecture & Orchestration	27%	19 questions
2	Tool Design & MCP Integration	18%	13 questions
3	Claude Code Configuration & Workflows	20%	14 questions
4	Prompt Engineering & Structured Output	20%	14 questions
5	Context Management & Reliability	15%	11 questions

Format: Multiple choice, 4 options (1 correct, 3 distractors)
Scoring: Scaled 100–1,000. Pass at 720 (~69% correct)
Questions: 77 total, all with explanations

Files

File	Description
`Claude Certification Exam.md`	Full 77-question practice exam with answer key
`cert-exam-skill.md`	Claude Code skill for interactive exam sessions

Run the Exam Interactively in Claude Code

The `cert-exam-skill.md` file is a Claude Code skill. To use it:

**1. Copy the skill to your Claude Code skills directory:**

mkdir -p .claude/skills
cp cert-exam-skill.md .claude/skills/cert-exam.md

**2. Run it from Claude Code:**

/cert-exam          # 20 questions (default)
/cert-exam 10       # quick 10-question session
/cert-exam 40       # deeper practice
/cert-exam 77       # full exam simulation