🧠 Claude Certified Architect — Exam Prep Guide

A documentation site covering all 5 official exam domains across 10 focused sections, with an interactive quiz, traps & gotchas, and a cheat sheet.

The Problem

The Claude Certified Architect exam covers 5 official domains — from Tool Design & MCP to Agentic Architecture & Orchestration. The official prep material is spread across docs, cheat sheets, and guides. There's no single place to study everything, test yourself, and review traps in one sitting.

What It Does

A MkDocs Material site hosted on GitHub Pages with grouped navigation, collapsible study sections, and a fully interactive quiz.

Feature	Details
5 domains, 10 sections	Each official exam domain is broken into focused sections — see mapping below
Self-test quiz	15 exam-style questions with scoring, progress tracking, and explanations
Traps & Gotchas	Side-by-side correct vs. wrong answers for common exam traps
Cheat sheet	Quick-reference tables for every section
Light/dark mode	Built-in toggle with automatic detection
Search	Full-text search across all pages

Domain → Section Mapping

Official Exam Domain	Weight	Guide Sections
Tool Design & MCP Integration	18%	1. Messages API, 2. Tool Design, 3. Error Handling, 4. MCP
Claude Code Configuration & Workflows	20%	5. Agent Skills
Agentic Architecture & Orchestration	27%	6. Agent SDK, 7. Agentic Patterns, 8. Workflows
Prompt Engineering & Structured Output	20%	9. Prompt Engineering
Context Management & Reliability	15%	10. Context Management

Built On

Tech	Why
MkDocs Material	Clean documentation theme with built-in search, dark mode, collapsible sections, and code copy
Markdown	Content in 16 separate .md files — easy to read, edit, and review via PRs
GitHub Actions	Auto-deploys to GitHub Pages on every push to main

Live Site

https://amitgambhir.github.io/claude-certified-architect-guide/

Quickstart

# Study online
# Visit the live site above

# Or run locally
git clone https://github.com/amitgambhir/claude-certified-architect-guide.git
cd claude-certified-architect-guide
uv venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
uv pip install -r requirements.txt
mkdocs serve
# Open http://127.0.0.1:8000/

Deploy Your Own

1. Fork or clone this repo
2. Push to GitHub
3. Go to Settings > Pages
4. Set source to "Deploy from a branch" → gh-pages branch, / (root)
5. The GitHub Actions workflow will build and deploy on every push to main

Why This Is Different

• Exam-focused, not docs-focused — organized by exam weight, with traps and gotchas called out explicitly.
• Interactive self-testing — quiz with scoring tells you exactly why each wrong answer is wrong.
• Easy to contribute — content lives in markdown files, not a monolithic HTML file.

Contributing

Found a mistake? Have a better explanation for a tricky concept? Contributions are welcome.

1. Fork this repo
2. Edit the relevant .md file under docs/
3. Preview with mkdocs serve
4. Open a pull request with a clear description of what changed and why

Good contributions: fixing incorrect answers, adding missing exam topics, improving quiz explanations, accessibility improvements.

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Built to pass the exam, not to explain the docs.