Claude Architect Exam: 6-Week Study Plan, Cheat Sheet and Exam-Day Tips
A six-week study plan for the Claude Architect Foundations exam, a one-page cheat sheet of must-know facts, official resources and exam-day tactics.
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1,677 articles · page 1 of 140Claude Architect Hands-on Labs: 8 Practical Exercises
Eight hands-on labs for the Claude Architect exam: agent loop, extraction, batches, Agent SDK, Claude Code setup, MCP server and a CI review bot.
Human Review, Confidence Calibration and Source Provenance
Prove extraction accuracy before automating: segment by document type, use stratified sampling and calibrated confidence, and keep claim-source provenance.
Escalation Rules and Error Propagation in Claude Agents
Know when a Claude support agent should escalate to a human, why sentiment and confidence scores mislead, and how subagents should report their errors.
Claude Context Management: Case Facts, Lost-in-the-Middle and /compact
Keep critical details in long Claude conversations with case-facts blocks, trimmed tool output, key findings first, scratchpads, /compact and manifests.
Claude Message Batches API and Multi-Pass Review Design
Batch processing questions are pure judgement: when is cheaper-but-slower acceptable? The exam also asks how to design reviews that stay accurate at scale (Task Statements 4.5…
Claude Structured Output with tool_use and JSON Schema
Get schema-valid JSON from Claude with tool_use, design nullable and enum fields that stop fabrication, and build validation-retry loops that work.
Prompt Engineering for Claude: Explicit Criteria and Few-Shot Examples
Cut false positives with explicit review criteria, define severity with code examples and use two to four targeted few-shot examples for consistent output.
Claude Code in CI/CD: -p Flag, JSON Output and Automated PR Review
Run Claude Code in CI/CD with -p, --output-format json and --json-schema, feed it CLAUDE.md context, use an independent reviewer, stop duplicate comments.
Claude Code Plan Mode vs Direct Execution and Iterative Refinement
Know when Claude Code needs plan mode, direct execution or the Explore subagent, and steer output with examples, tests and the interview pattern.
Claude Code Slash Commands and Skills (SKILL.md Frontmatter)
Create Claude Code slash commands and skills for your team, and use SKILL.md frontmatter context: fork, allowed-tools and argument-hint the right way.
CLAUDE.md Configuration Guide: Hierarchy, @import and Path-Specific Rules
Master the CLAUDE.md hierarchy, @import for modular standards, .claude/rules with path globs and the /memory command so every teammate gets the same setup.
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