Podcast

Passing CCAR-F

Thirteen episodes, about twelve minutes each, that walk the Claude Certified Architect Foundations exam domains in order: what the exam is, the agentic loop, coordinators and subagents, guarantees and hooks, tools and MCP, prompting, structured output, context, reliability, and exam day. Free, no signup.

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Who it is for

Anyone studying for the Foundations exam, and anyone who builds with Claude Code and wants the concepts behind the tooling explained plainly, one topic per episode. It was made as our own study aid and published because the notes were worth sharing.

Every episode is on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Substack. Any other podcast app takes the RSS feed.

Episodes

  1. 00 What This Exam Actually Is 13:12
  2. 01 The Agentic Loop, and Where People Break It 13:29
  3. 02 Coordinators and Subagents 12:24
  4. 03 Hard Guarantees, Hooks, Gates, and Sessions 12:34
  5. 04 Tool Descriptions Are the Interface 12:08
  6. 05 MCP in Production, Errors, Scoping, Built Ins 12:45
  7. 06 Configuring Claude Code, Memory, Rules, Commands, Skills 12:38
  8. 07 Plan Mode, Iteration, and CI 12:37
  9. 08 Precision Prompting, Criteria, Few Shot, Multi Pass 12:03
  10. 09 Structured Output, Schemas, Validation, Batch 12:03
  11. 10 Context That Survives 12:02
  12. 11 Reliability, Escalation, Errors, Review, Provenance 12:17
  13. 12 Exam Day, and Working the Questions 12:23

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Passing CCAR-F is an independent study series by Brody Networks. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic, and it is not official exam material. Check the official exam guide for the current domains and policies.