Welcome to the Field Manual

The Claude Certified Architect — Foundations (CCA-F) exam is new. As of May 2026 there are very few public prep resources, and the ones that exist are mostly scattered docs, blog posts, and AI-generated quizzes of questionable depth.

We built ccaf.ai because we wanted the prep environment we wished we'd had when we sat the exam ourselves.

What's inside

Three mock exams. 60 questions each, 120 minutes each, in a focused exam cockpit that matches the pacing of the real thing:

• Mock 1 — Diagnostic. Take it cold to see where you stand. Coverage across every published CCA-F domain.
• Mock 2 — Concept Builder. A different set of items targeting the same domains, with a tighter focus on scenario-based reasoning.
• Mock 3 — Full Simulation. Sit it like the real exam — clock, pacing, weighting. The scaled signal you walk away with is the strongest read on whether you're ready.

Plus guided review with explanations on every question, domain-by-domain scoring, weak-area recommendations, and a study roadmap.

A philosophy: practice-style, not leaked

The site explicitly does not contain real exam questions or leaked content. The questions are practice-style items written from the public CCA-F blueprint and general Claude architecture concepts.

Why? Because anyone serious about a credential doesn't want to enter the exam having memorized a question dump — they want to enter it having internalized the reasoning. The mocks here are designed for that.

Try 10 questions free

If you're not sure whether this is for you, you can take a free 10-question sampler right in your browser. No account, no payment. Same scoring math, same explanation depth.

If it clicks, the full 180-question pack is a one-time $30 — no subscription, no upsells. Get access here.

What's next

We're adding posts here on:

• Patterns and anti-patterns building with the Claude Agent SDK
• Real production scenarios from the four CCA-F technologies (Agent SDK, Claude Code, the Claude API, MCP)
• Notes from our own May 2026 pass journey

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