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

I found the exam to be much harder than the Matthew Purcell one and closer in difficulty to the ones in claudestudycards.com although still a tad more difficult (or maybe just the nerves!) I used the recordings in the group and the repo from Abi Odedeyi to help me learn the content and then claudestudycards.com to practice. Thank you to the group for providing so many useful resources and to @Anita Ortiz who let me join!

Whew, this was scary. First 3 questions, I had no clues what they were talking about. Started panicking. By question 30, I had given up convinced I'll not pass. Then I stopped, prayed and reminded myself that I studied and I know the concepts. I started following the methodology I had outlined for myself: Read the question first, think about it to evaluate the solution, read the scenario and check if the solution I have in mind still matches. After that look at the answer and choose one then weigh it against the others. First round, 50 minutes left I had more than 20 questions flagged for review out of the 60. Went back and checked the flagged questions. 5 minutes left, I just submitted. One thing I can say is the practice tests help but not quite because the language and the formulation are very different. You really need to understand the concepts to filter out the noise. Thank you for all the wonderful support and help. 😊😊😊

The worst part is I live in a tiny apartment and don't have any rooms without words (or things) everywhere - art on walls, cat food shelves, bookshelves, etc. so I had to move to my balcony last minute after they said no to the room I planned to use. And then I forgot to remove my watch, so they messaged me during the test and made me move my laptop camera around a bunch to re-check the space. So during the test, every time someone drove by with loud radio or something, I stressed that they would invalidate my test. 😅😭 Definitely 0 out of 10, do not recommend starting the exam with that kind of last-minute stress. I wish there was a way we could have submitted room photos ahead of time so I could plan better. I probably should have put that in the feedback at the end, but I was just so glad to be done I skipped the surveys. 🙃 My journey: I started using Claude Co-Work and Claude Code in April as a non-coder. I reached out to join this group & take the test last weekend I used claudestudycards.com, claudecertificationguide.com, and the Purcell practice exam throughout the week to prep. You can all do it!

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