CCAR-P — Claude Certified Architect — Professional
The advanced companion to CCA-F, for architects operating past foundational agentic design into production-scale system decisions, governance, and cross-team enablement.
StatusThis certification is live and administered by Anthropic via Pearson VUE. Free practice content for it isn't published on thatclaude.com yet — we build one track at a time, fully; CCA-F is live today. This page has the domain blueprint to help you start planning, and we'll link real practice content here as it ships. Watch the changelog for updates.
Exam format
- 63 items · 120 minutes
- Pass mark 720/1000 · $175 per attempt
- Pearson VUE delivery · credential valid 12 months · retake waits of 14/30/90 days (max 4 attempts/year) · free non-proctored renewal while current
Who it's for
Senior architects, AI/ML engineers, and technical leads designing production-scale Claude systems.
Recommended, not required: 3+ years in architecture/platform roles and 6+ months hands-on with Claude or LLM systems.
Domain blueprint
Solution Design & Architecture
17%
Claude Models, Prompting & Context Engineering
13%
Integration
19%
Evaluation, Testing & Optimisation
16%
Governance, Safety & Risk Management
14%
Stakeholder Communication & Lifecycle Management
14%
Developer Productivity & Operational Enablement
7%
Domain names and weights mirror Anthropic's publicly described Exam Guide v1.0 (effective July 2026) as relayed by third-party sources — not yet independently confirmed against an Anthropic-owned page. We'll update this the moment we can verify directly against official Anthropic material.