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A first-hand report on Anthropic's Claude Certified Architect exam says it is not a docs-skim
An r/ClaudeAI post (232 upvotes) from someone who just sat the Architect Foundations exam warns against treating it as "read the docs for an hour," saying it tests whether you understand how agentic systems actually work rather than whether you have used Claude Code. The exam is 60 questions in 120 minutes, $125, scaled pass at 720/1000, valid 12 months, spanning Claude Code, the Agent SDK, the API and MCP, with a domain on managing the full agentic loop of gather context, act, verify. Access is currently limited to organizations in the Claude Partner Network, which is why first-hand accounts are scarce enough that this one got upvoted.
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