Claude Certified Architect Exam Guide: Partner Requirements & Course Topics

piece of code and welcome to this video. Now in this video, this video is going to be very special because I want to

discuss about one more really amazing and this is going to be very popular you know, AI certification and

this is from none other than Anthropic AI or Claude, whatever you want to call it.

And this is Claude certified architect guys and it has been recently launched. And um

it has some common gotchas that you need to be keeping in mind. Um What do I mean by common gotchas is just

some uh things that you need to keep in mind

before appearing for this particular exam. First of all, the exam is exclusive for Anthropic partners.

Okay? It just means that it is not open to individual you know, um

subscribers or people. It is for Anthropic partners. For example, you are working at a company

who is a partner to Anthropic and you're employed there, so you will be able to give this exam

and giving this exam also comes in, you know, a little bit of a twist.

So, first of all, it is free for early access. So, first of all, to just give the to be eligible for this exam, you

must be a employee at a partner company of Anthropic. Okay? And to be eligible to give this exam for

free on top of that, you must be one of the first 5,000 partner company employees.

After that, you would be charged $99. But the thing is that if you are a part of an employee of a partner company, I

am 100% sure that that partner company is going to you know, sponsor your certification

attempt. Right? So, you don't have to worry about it. I guess most of the companies do

that. It was true in terms of AWS certifications. I guess now that it's the time of AI,

as the certification is from Claude or Anthropic, this is going to be sponsored. If you are at that partner

company, I think so. Okay? Just my opinion. It's a 120-minute proctored exam and you would get your results in

almost 2 days, which is fine. And this is your um syllabus. Agentic architecture and

orchestration. Recently, I've been making a lot of videos on agentic architecture and Oscar orchestration,

but yeah, this covers a little bit more in depth, I guess. But yeah, those videos also you you can

refer to understand AI agentic architecture and all those things. Tool design and MCP integration. Very, very

important, guys. And I have been explaining this in a lot of my recent videos how MCP

is the like, you know, really amazing if you have a AI you know, application or AI-based

architecture, MCPs are the way to go. Right? It's not going to replace APIs or all those things, but yeah, it is the

new norms when you are dealing with AI-based applications. That that also I have covered in one of my videos. Claude

code configuration workflows. Very, very important. You know,

how do you configure Claude MD hierarchies and all those questions you have to answer of the all of those

things and you know, uh using um you know, um Claude or any kind of coding assistant

or any kind of a platform is not just typing a one-line thing, right? It is all about prompt engineering,

um learning about the nitty-gritties of what that particular uh you know, um

thing offers, right? Um to be as efficient as possible while

saving costs. And to do all that, you need to understand. For example, in terms of

Claude, have you used custom skills? Have you used the Claude MD file? If you're using client, have you used the

client rules file? These are all the questions you should ask yourself before spending an extra penny.

So, yeah. Penny for a thought? Please keep that in mind. Next comes prompt engineering and

structured output. Prompt engineering is like the bread and butter of AI developers and AI engineering. Right?

Context manageability and reliability. Preserve critical information across long interactions. So, basically, how do

you manage proper context? For example, a question may come, while using Claude code, what is the

predefined skill or the command to compact your conversations or to preserve your conversation?

Because, you would run out of that you know, token context window. How do you

um you know, try to avoid that? You can use the {slash} compact command, guys. That will

compact your conversation and keep the context of your conversation intact even though you're running out of context

because, you know, it is that that command will summarize whatever you have discussed with Claude

and it will keep kind of a summary in Claude. So, that session in that session, wherever you are writing the

code or you know, conversing with the particular uh for example, at Anthropic model, it will be preserved because, you

know, it is creating a summary whenever you are running that {dot} {slash} compact command, right? So, context

management and reliability um you know, reliability. This is just an example that I just gave of the {slash} compact

command, right? And I've covered all that in my recent video of my Claude code masterclass, so you can go and have

a look. Now, to get a better um

view of what you're getting in the exam, you can just download the exam guide. I just downloaded it. I was just going

through it. You know, it's just mentioned a little bit in depth of what you're going to get

in the exam. You know, more or less, it's the same whatever I had discussed,

but you know, you need to have some kind of scenario knowledge or hands-on implementation knowledge.

So, it has some sample questions as well. Okay? So, you can just go through it.

So, see, just randomly I offered in this command, it is telling that So, random randomly I just um

came to this particular question and it is asking that you want to create a custom {slash} review {slash} command

that runs your team's standard code review checklist. The command should be available to every developer when they

clone or pull the repository. Where should you create this command file?

So, the you know, the correct answer This is this is just the answer section. I'm

just I'm just reading through it. Project-scoped custom {slash} command should be stored in the {dot} Claude

{slash} commands directory within the repository. These commands are version controlled and automatically

available to the developers when they clone or pull the repo. So,

the skills that you're going to use in Claude, the custom skills that you're going to create and this is a example of

a custom skill in Claude, right? And it also includes the availability of that particular

custom skill and it says that it should be available to all the developer when they clone or pull the repository. So,

you need to have that information in your mind, okay? This is how I should create the custom skill.

And that's how you're going to, you know, increase your knowledge

in Claude code and whatnot, right? And it's very, very important to understand all of these concepts. If you guys want

me to make a course on this particular Claude certified architect, it's Claude certified architect, right?

Yeah. You can just uh put your comments in the chat that,

"Okay, we need a course." And I'll start preparing for it. It might take some time, but yeah, I'm going to give you

the best of the resources that is there for this particular exam and I'll try to explain the concepts as

easily as possible. Okay? So, that is what I what I wanted to discuss. And one thing, if you are a

partner, you know, working as an employee at a partner company of Anthropic, you can just register for the

exam using your official mail ID and that should work out. Okay?

Okay, guys. So, that was all about this particular video. Thank you for

uh watching this video. Have a nice day. Take care. Ta-ta. Bye-bye.