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Claude Certified Architect - Professional (CCAR-P)

We do not teach just for the test.Worked examples and real discussion, not a question bank. The exam is then delivered in the classroom — 98% pass it first time.
$2,795MSRP per seat
$1,500with military fundingAF COOL · Army CA · MyCAA
Name your pricethinQflex™ — tell us what you can payIn full, or across twelve monthly payments
Next dates
  • Dec 7–10Sterling, VA
  • Jan 4–7Atlanta, GA
  • Jan 11–14Burbank, CA
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4 daysconsecutive days
Live onlineor in the classroom
ProfessionalArtificial Intelligence
24 monthsfree retakes

Course overview

Download the course datasheetThe full outline for Claude Certified Architect - Professional (CCAR-P), as a PDF.
thinQtank® Learning is offering a unique four-day training camp comprised of four days of instructor-led learning that gives students the knowledge and skills needed to design, integrate and govern enterprise Claude systems end to end: solution design and architecture, models, prompting and context engineering, integration and retrieval, evaluation and optimization, governance and risk, stakeholder communication, and team enablement.

The camp follows the exam outline Anthropic publishes for this certification, with hands-on Claude labs throughout. Claude Certified Architect - Professional is Anthropic's professional-level credential for architects who deliver production LLM systems from discovery through operations and defend those decisions to stakeholders. Anthropic updates this exam on December 7, 2026, with new exam guides due November 17, 2026; classes from December 7 onward teach to the updated guide.

Anthropic and Claude are trademarks of Anthropic, PBC.

This course prepares students to take the Claude Certified Architect - Professional (CCAR-P) exam.

What's included

13 items
thinQtank® Learning Accelerated Custom Exam Study Guide for the Claude Certified Architect - Professional (CCAR-P) exam
Hands-on lab guide with Claude exercises for every exam domain
Custom and focused exam preparation software and materials
Course specific thinQtank® Learning publications to promote a fun and exciting learning
Membership to the thinQtank® Learning University Online
WE DO NOT "TEACH THE TEST" - Students will receive valuable examples and discussion
All courses taught by experienced Claude practitioners
Additional hours of remote lab access
Custom video recordings with even more in-depth learning of course topics
Customized practice exam software
Digital courseware
Retake any or all portions of the course as many times as you like in person or live on-line for 24 months
Six months mentoring access to our engineers after completing the course

What you'll be able to do

13 objectives
  • Translate business problems into Claude architectures
  • Choose workflow, agentic or augmented-LLM patterns
  • Design secure integrations, retrieval pipelines and observability
  • Build evaluation frameworks and optimize cost and latency
  • Apply guardrails, human review and compliance controls
  • Run discovery and communicate trade-offs to stakeholders
  • Integration: Over-privileged tool and agent configurations; authentication and authorization gaps; RAG pipelines and retrieval strategy; MCP, API and agent-to-agent integration
  • Solution Design and Architecture: Business problems to Claude solutions; workflow vs agentic patterns; multi-agent orchestration; business value and SLAs
  • Evaluation, Testing and Optimization: Accuracy, latency, cost and safety metrics; eval datasets and A/B tests; diagnosing failures; observability
  • Governance, Safety and Risk Management: Guardrails and safety controls; LLM failure modes; human-in-the-loop; GDPR, HIPAA and FedRAMP considerations
  • Stakeholder Communication and Lifecycle Management: Discovery and requirements; communicating trade-offs; expectations and SLAs; architecture documentation
  • Claude Models, Prompting and Context Engineering: Model trade-offs; system prompts and guardrails; context window and token management; prompt caching and Skills
  • Developer Productivity and Operational Enablement: Configuring Claude Code for teams; AI-assisted tooling; operational issue resolution

The exam

120minutes to complete
  • Claude Certified Architect - Professional (CCAR-P)
  • Exam fee set by Anthropic: $175 USD per attempt
  • Passing score: 720 on a 100-1,000 scaled score
  • Exam eligibility: Anthropic opens these exams only to employees of Claude Partner Network organizations, who register with a company email address. Confirm your employer is a Claude Partner Network member before you enroll.
  • Exams are delivered by Pearson VUE, online proctored (OnVUE) or at a test center; registration starts in Anthropic's Partner Academy - we help you schedule your attempt

Who it's for, and what you need first

Target Audience

  • Mid- to senior-level solution and enterprise architects
  • AI and ML engineers and technical leads running production LLM systems
  • Enterprise deployment consultants
  • Service members, veterans and military spouses using AF COOL, Army Credentialing Assistance, MyCAA or VET TEC 2.0

Prerequisites

  • No certification prerequisite
  • Anthropic recommends 3+ years in systems architecture and 6+ months of production Claude or LLM work
  • To sit the exam, your employer must be a Claude Partner Network member (Anthropic's rule); the class itself is open to anyone

How it's delivered

Instructor-Led Training
Immersive Live-Online Training
On-Site and Custom Delivery

Dates and locations

21 scheduled
DatesLocationStatus
Mon Dec 7 – Dec 10, 20264 daysSterling, VA21481 Ridgetop CirOpenRequest info
Mon Jan 4 – Jan 7, 20274 daysAtlanta, GA431 Marietta St NWOpenRequest info
Mon Jan 11 – Jan 14, 20274 daysBurbank, CA3301 N San Fernando BlvdOpenRequest info
Mon Feb 1 – Feb 4, 20274 daysSterling, VA21481 Ridgetop CirOpenRequest info
Mon Mar 1 – Mar 4, 20274 daysAtlanta, GA431 Marietta St NWOpenRequest info
Mon Mar 8 – Mar 11, 20274 daysBurbank, CA3301 N San Fernando BlvdOpenRequest info
Mon Mar 29 – Apr 1, 20274 daysSterling, VA21481 Ridgetop CirOpenRequest info
Mon Apr 26 – Apr 29, 20274 daysAtlanta, GA431 Marietta St NWOpenRequest info
Mon May 3 – May 6, 20274 daysBurbank, CA3301 N San Fernando BlvdOpenRequest info
Mon May 24 – May 27, 20274 daysSterling, VA21481 Ridgetop CirOpenRequest info
Mon Jun 21 – Jun 24, 20274 daysAtlanta, GA431 Marietta St NWOpenRequest info
Mon Jun 28 – Jul 1, 20274 daysBurbank, CA3301 N San Fernando BlvdOpenRequest info
Mon Jul 19 – Jul 22, 20274 daysSterling, VA21481 Ridgetop CirOpenRequest info
Mon Aug 16 – Aug 19, 20274 daysAtlanta, GA431 Marietta St NWOpenRequest info
Mon Aug 23 – Aug 26, 20274 daysBurbank, CA3301 N San Fernando BlvdOpenRequest info
Mon Sep 13 – Sep 16, 20274 daysSterling, VA21481 Ridgetop CirOpenRequest info
Mon Oct 18 – Oct 21, 20274 daysAtlanta, GA431 Marietta St NWOpenRequest info
Mon Oct 25 – Oct 28, 20274 daysBurbank, CA3301 N San Fernando BlvdOpenRequest info
Mon Nov 15 – Nov 18, 20274 daysSterling, VA21481 Ridgetop CirOpenRequest info
Mon Dec 6 – Dec 9, 20274 daysAtlanta, GA431 Marietta St NWOpenRequest info
Mon Dec 13 – Dec 16, 20274 daysBurbank, CA3301 N San Fernando BlvdOpenRequest info
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Prices shown are MSRP. Qualified military personnel funding through Air Force COOL, Army Credentialing Assistance, MyCAA or VET TEC 2.0 pay a flat $1,500 per class, whatever the listed price. Everyone else — call 855-868-4467 about group pricing, discounts and current promotions.