Orientation: what CCAR-P measures
What the Professional exam is, how it differs from Foundations, the seven domains and their weights, and how to prepare. Read this first: it also sets out what this guide is and is not.
3 lessons · 43 min
Print the whole moduleModule objectives
- Describe the CCAR-P blueprint, its seven domains and their weights
- Explain how the exam is scored and reported
- Distinguish the judgement this exam tests from the recognition Foundations tests
- Plan preparation around designing and defending systems rather than reading
01Before you start
The credential, the blueprint, and an honest account of what this independent guide covers.
Print this unit- 1.1What the CCAR-P exam measuresWhat the Claude Certified Architect Professional credential tests, how the seven domains are weighted, how the exam is delivered and scored, and what a scaled pass mark of 720 does and does not tell you.14m
- 1.2Professional versus Foundations: the change in levelFoundations asks whether you recognise the mechanism. Professional asks which design you would defend under constraint, and what you say to the stakeholder who wanted the other one. What that difference means for who should sit the exam and how to revise for it.14m
- 1.3How to prepare: build one system, then defend itA preparation method built around designing, building and operating a single end-to-end Claude solution with retrieval, evaluation and observability, then rehearsing the justification for every decision in it. Plus how to use this guide with the exam simulator, and what an independent question bank cannot do.15m