Claude Certified Architect: Foundations (CCA-F)
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Agent State Management — Stateless API, Stateful Workflow 12m Agentic Safety Rails — Anthropic's Guardrails Pattern 12m Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Philosophy 12m Bounded Iteration — Why max_iterations Matters 12m Building a Production MCP Server — Auth, Logging, Versioning 12m CI/CD with Claude Code — Headless Mode + Outputs 12m CLAUDE.md Hierarchy — Project / User / Enterprise Cascade 12m Claude Code 101 — CLI Mental Model 12m Confidence Thresholds + Human-in-the-Loop Escalation 12m Context Handoff Between Agents (OAuth-Relay Pattern) 12m Custom Slash Commands — Your Team's Vocabulary 12m DAG Orchestration — Manhattan Subway Map 12m Error Propagation in Tool Responses 12m Extended Thinking — When to Enable, When to Skip 12m Few-Shot Examples — Placement and Count 12m Hub-and-Spoke vs Sequential Orchestration 12m Hub-and-Spoke vs Sequential Orchestration 12m Long-Context Compaction — Chapter Boundaries vs Token Cuts 12m MCP Host / Client / Server — The Three Layers 12m MCP Transport — stdio vs SSE vs HTTP 12m Model Routing — Haiku for Speed, Sonnet for Reasoning, Opus for Architecture 12m Multi-Agent Research Pipeline — Planner + Workers + Critic 12m Multi-File Migrations — Refactoring at Scale 12m Negative Constraints — Why 'Don't' Fails 12m Parallel Tool Calls vs Sequential — The Latency Math 12m Persona Prompts — When They Help and When They Hurt 12m Plan Mode vs Edit Mode — When to Stay Read-Only 12m PreToolUse / PostToolUse Hooks — Deterministic Gates 12m Prompt Caching — Where to Place Cache Breakpoints 12m Pydantic Integration — End-to-End Typed Pipelines 12m Rate Limits and Exponential Backoff 12m Recursive Sub-Task Delegation 12m Reliability Patterns — Retries, Fallbacks, Circuit Breakers 12m Resource vs Tool — The Read/Write Distinction 12m Retry-on-Validation-Fail Loops 12m Router Pattern — How a Lead Agent Decides 12m Structured Output Mode — JSON Schema Enforcement 12m Subagent Definitions — Custom Roles via Frontmatter 12m Subagent Dispatch — Isolated Context Bubbles 12m System Prompts — Role, Rules, Constraints 12m Task Decomposition — When to Split, When to Merge 12m Telemetry and Observability — What to Log 12m The Context Window — 200K Tokens Isn't Free 12m The ReAct Loop — Thought → Action → Observation 12m Tool Boundary Discipline — Why Tools Shouldn't Reason 12m Tool Output Size — Avoiding Context Blow-up 12m What is MCP? — Model Context Protocol in 12 Minutes 12m What is an Agent? — Anthropic's Definition 12m XML Tag Scoping — Sections That Don't Bleed 12m settings.json — Permissions, Hooks, MCP Servers 12m tool_choice — auto, explicit, and forced 12m