Anthropic's CCA Exam as a Field-Guide for Agentic Engineering

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Anthropic's CCA Exam: A Field-Guide for Agentic Engineering The Claude Certified Architect (CCA)

exam distills what Anthropic has learned from working with the AI companies shipping agents to

production — the patterns that work, the anti-patterns that quietly burn tokens and trust, and the

architectural decisions that separate demos from systems you'd stake a quarter on. This talk treats

the exam as a field guide for agentic engineering, whether or not you ever sit for it. We'll walk

through the five competency domains the exam tests — Agentic Architecture, Tool Design and MCP

Integration, Claude Code, Prompt Engineering, and Context Management — with particular emphasis on

multi-agent orchestration, subagent delegation, tool schema design, and lifecycle hooks. We'll then

work through the six real-world scenarios the exam uses to probe judgment, each organized around an

anti-pattern: the seductive-but-wrong move that looks reasonable until it costs you a production

incident. Attendees leave with a working mental model of the agentic surface area and a checklist of

the failure modes that matter most when moving from prototype to production. Who should attend:

engineers and architects building agentic systems with Claude or other frontier models, technical

leads evaluating agent designs, and developers considering the CCA credential.

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