Welcome to our new members: Carina Gonzalez Olivia Ruiz Rashidat O Barbara Shurtleff Tani Massi Christiaan Gouws Mehboob Khan Osman Mohamed You just joined a room full of people studying for the Claude Certified Architect – Foundations (CCAF) exam, and several who’ve already passed it. Here’s the lay of the land. What you have access to - Community discussion: Ask questions, share what’s working, and learn from members who’ve been through the exam. - Free Classroom pages: Resources and updates open to everyone in the group. We will be adding more. @Alice Bazdikian, @Hsin-chih Lee, and @Anita Ortiz are your guides and moderators. All of us have passed the CCAF. Start here 1. Introduce yourself below: your name, what you do, and where you are in your CCAF prep (just curious, studying, or booking your exam). 2. Ask anything. No question is too basic. Everyone here started somewhere. 3. Save the date for our free webinar (below) to share info on the Bootcamp starting November 1. 📅 Free webinar: Tuesday, October 20 at 5pm ET We will walk through the CCAF, the study framework that’s helped our members prepare, and the new Bootcamp. Register here: https://get720.com. 🚀 Claude Certification Success Bootcamp: launches November 1 We're excited you're joining us. We've had 13 people pass the CCAF in the last 45 days, and we look forward to adding you to that list soon! Glad you’re here. Say hi below! Anita

You helped us prove this works and we're launching a formal framework to help others get to 720 passing and obtain the CCAF! Here’s what’s next, and what it means for you. 1. The new site is live: https://get720.com It introduces the Claude Certification Success Bootcamp, launching November 1. Focused on helping non-technicals obtain the CCAF, we're taking all we've learned and putting together a structured program. There are a few ways through it: join the community for connection and questions, do a self-paced DIY, or a fast track with live meetings and intensive study sessions. Accessing the Skool community is free, upgrade to a paid for hands on training and resources. Founding members (anyone who joined before October 1, 2026) keep access to everything FOR FREE as long as you need it. If you hit anything gated, message Anita. 2. Free webinar: Tuesday, October 20 at 5pm ET Alice, Shin (Hsin-Chih’s preferred name going forward), and I will cover the CCAF, the Bootcamp, and our study framework. 120+ people are already signed up. Know someone who’s curious? Send them here: https://get720.com 3. New faces in the Skool group We’re admitting new members who’ll be part of the conversation and may be a part of the Bootcamp. Please welcome them. You’ve been where they are, and your experience is what they need to hear. 4. Claude Study Cards has its own home: https://www.claudestudycards.com Your survey feedback was consistent: the cards were a big help and an integral part of how you studied. They’re now $29/month as a standalone and included in the paid Bootcamp tiers. Again, Founding members keep free access for as long as you need it. Same login as before. Tell me if anything breaks. 5. Affiliate links are coming You’re the reason we know there’s demand for this, and you’re our best cheerleaders. Each of you will get a personal affiliate link that earns commission on the Bootcamp and Claude Study Cards. Watch for an email later this week with your link and the details, so you can share it before the October 20 webinar.

Next Steps - Study target: Finish Domain 1 (Agentic Architecture) this week; move to Tool Design & MCP next week (https://claudecertificationguide.com/) - Exam timing: Several members (Alice, Pam) targeting mid-August for first attempt, allowing two retake windows before October 1st - Flashcard resource: Anita to share her 32-module video series + 360-question Claude-generated flashcard deck with Alice for evaluation before wider distribution 56 Key Certification Updates (from Anthropic broadcast) - 3 new cert tiers added: Associate (non-technical/strategy), Developer, Architect Professional — non-technical Associate does not count toward the group's 10-person goal - Retake wait periods now documented: 14 days after 1st failure → 30 days after 2nd → 90 days after 3rd; capped at 4 attempts per rolling 12 months - Certification validity: 12 months, renewal requirements not yet defined - No practice exam questions coming soon — the certification platform owner acknowledged it's on her to-do list with no timeline - Exam format change: Questions may now require selecting two correct answers (not just one), making distractor-elimination strategies less reliable - Claude in Slack ("Claude Tag"): Introduced as a collaborative teammate feature; no demo shown Pam's Study Method (Demonstrated) - Uses the Claude Certification Guide site https://claudecertificationguide.com/ domain-by-domain: read theory → copy built-in concept quiz prompts into a Claude "Study Coach" project → then do hands-on coding exercises - Gemini used as a prompt-review advisor to refine coding prompts before executing in Cursor; helps non-coders structure prompts without needing to write code from scratch - Running actual API calls with Haiku model to keep token costs low during practice - Key insight from exercises: sub-agent failures typically stem from the coordinator not passing sufficient context, not the sub-agent itself — a known exam topic

Welcome to our new members: Santhosh Siddappa Ahmer Kashif Heidi Ross Maria Levin Ronan Keane Robert Cannon Nadja Langeheine Devendra Shukla Adolf Brian Aungon Nicolas B. You just joined a room full of people studying for the Claude Certified Architect – Foundations (CCAF) exam, and several who’ve already passed it. Here’s the lay of the land. What you have access to - Community discussion: Ask questions, share what’s working, and learn from members who’ve been through the exam. - Free Classroom pages: Resources and updates open to everyone in the group. We will be adding more. @Alice Bazdikian , @Hsin-chih Lee, and @Anita Ortiz are your guides and moderators. All of us have passed the CCAF. Start here 1. Introduce yourself below: your name, what you do, and where you are in your CCAF prep (just curious, studying, or booking your exam). 2. Ask anything. No question is too basic. Everyone here started somewhere. 3. Save the date for our free webinar (below) to share info on the Bootcamp starting November 1. 📅 Free webinar: Tuesday, October 20 at 5pm ET We will walk through the CCAF, the study framework that’s helped our members prepare, and the new Bootcamp. Register here: https://get720.com

Wow... What an adrenaline rush! My challenge was time management. Less than 20 minutes left to review my flagged questions. The questions were so verbose! The http://claudestudycards.com/ and the intensive sessions with @Anita Ortiz were priceless! Thank you Anita and @Alice Bazdikian for all the training sessions!