Claude Certified Architect — Foundations

This repository contains study materials for the Claude Certified Architect — Foundations certification.

Certificate Example

Course Access

• Certification is currently restricted to members of the Anthropic Partner Network and requires registration with a verified partner company email. Claude Partner Network: https://claude.com/partners
• Free for the first 5,000 partner company employees. General availability will be $99.
• To request access to the official course/exam portal, use this link: https://anthropic.skilljar.com/claude-certified-architect-foundations-access-request

Study Guide

• English guide: guide_en.md
• Spanish guide: guide_es.md
• Russian guide: guide_ru.md
• Chinese guide: guide_zh.md
• Japanese guide: guide_ja.md
• Urdu guide: guide_ur.md
• Arabic guide: guide_ar.md
• Hebrew guide: guide_he.md
• Korean guide: guide_ko.md
• Italian guide: guide_it.md
• Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) guide: guide_zh-tw.md
• Vietnamese guide: guide_vi.md
• Turkish guide: guide_tr.md
• French guide: guide_fr.md

PDF Version

• English guide: guide_en.pdf
• Spanish guide: guide_es.pdf
• Russian guide: guide_ru.pdf
• Chinese guide: guide_zh.pdf
• Japanese guide: guide_ja.pdf
• Urdu guide: guide_ur.pdf
• Arabic guide: guide_ar.pdf
• Hebrew guide: guide_he.pdf
• Korean guide: guide_ko.pdf
• Italian guide: guide_it.pdf
• Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) guide: guide_zh-tw.pdf
• Vietnamese guide: guide_vi.pdf
• Turkish guide: guide_tr.pdf
• French guide: guide_fr.pdf

EPUB Version

• English guide: guide_en.epub
• Spanish guide: guide_es.epub
• Russian guide: guide_ru.epub
• Chinese guide: guide_zh.epub
• Japanese guide: guide_ja.epub
• Urdu guide: guide_ur.epub
• Arabic guide: guide_ar.epub
• Hebrew guide: guide_he.epub
• Korean guide: guide_ko.epub
• Italian guide: guide_it.epub
• Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) guide: guide_zh-tw.epub
• Vietnamese guide: guide_vi.epub
• Turkish guide: guide_tr.epub
• French guide: guide_fr.epub

Anki Deck (Practical Test)

• English: practical_test_en.apkg
• French: practical_test_fr.apkg
• Japanese: practical_test_ja.apkg
• Korean: practical_test_ko.apkg
• Russian: practical_test_ru.apkg
• Chinese: practical_test_zh.apkg

How to Use

• Read the guide that matches your preferred language.
• Work through the scenarios and questions.
• Use the Practical Exercises section to rehearse key patterns (tool design, MCP integration, structured output, context management, and reliability).

Free Anthropic Courses

13 free courses & certificates from Anthropic Academy:

1. Claude 101 — Learn Claude for everyday work. Core features and best practices.
2. AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations — The foundational thinking course.
3. Introduction to Agent Skills — Build, configure, and share Skills in Claude Code.
4. Building with the Claude API — Function calling, tool use, streaming, SDKs, and production patterns.
5. Claude Code in Action — Integrate Claude Code into your dev workflow.
6. Intro to Model Context Protocol — Build MCP servers and clients from scratch in Python.
7. MCP: Advanced Topics — Sampling, notifications, file system access, and transport for production MCP servers.
8. AI Fluency for Students — AI skills for learning, career planning, and academic success.
9. AI Fluency for Educators — For faculty and instructional designers applying AI Fluency into teaching.
10. Teaching AI Fluency — Teach and assess AI Fluency in instructor-led settings.
11. AI Fluency for Nonprofits — Increase organizational impact while staying mission-true.
12. Claude with Amazon Bedrock — The full AWS accreditation course, now open to everyone.
13. Claude with Google Cloud's Vertex AI — Work with Claude through Google Cloud's Vertex AI, from setup to production.

See Also

• Claude Code: Commands Cheatsheet https://claude-guides.com
• Top 80 Claude Skills, Agents & GitHub Repos for AI — The Complete Guide https://x.com/paullarionov/status/2038254131849134220

How to Contribute

• Add new translations to your language in md files, PDF version will be generated automatically after merge of PR.

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