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!

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. 😊😊😊

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!

Took it this morning and passed! For anyone still waiting on the Euler invite, I never got mine either. What worked was logging in directly at https://anthropic-partners.skilljar.com with the shiftsmartai email, going to Certifications, and buying the exam there ($125). Pearson sent the scheduling email right after and I booked it on OnVUE. One tip if you're taking it online: run the OnVUE system test ahead of time. Mine kept failing until I force-closed Edge running in the background. What helped me most for studying was the official exam guide and the sample questions in it. A lot of the answers come down to picking the simplest fix that actually enforces the behaviour, rather than the most elaborate one. Big thanks to @Alice Bazdikian and @Anita Ortiz for all the support! 🥳 Good luck to everyone booking next week :)