CCA·v2.11

Certification Readiness

Audit 2026-08-06

CCA v2.12

Certification readiness, measured honestly.

Course completion, CCA app progress, and the official Claude Certified Architect credential are three different things. This page keeps them separate and now adds a structured Anthropic Academy source registry so curriculum changes can be reviewed instead of silently going stale.

Academy

14 imported completions

CCA readiness metadata already imported

CCA content

141/168 detailed notes

27 outline-only lessons remain

Exam bank

15/150 questions

Current set is practice, not a mock exam

Official status

Access not yet confirmed

Partner Network application is the gate

Anthropic Academy Sync

Academy email signal is now structured CCA input.

Registry reviewed 2026-09-01. Source content remains external; CCA stores mappings, progress, actions, and change flags.

Courses

19

Canonical source records

Completed

13

Completion confirmations found

Registered

5

Registered / next-to-study

Tracks

7

1 curriculum review flag

Curriculum refresh detected

Claude Code in Action

Re-audit end to end: Anthropic announced a new lesson structure, all-new videos, and a new course quiz.

Academy source

Priority 1 · official access

Apply to the Claude Partner Network as Mat Siems Ltd.

Lead with the CCA platform, Claude architecture work, books, production apps, micro-consulting, and a concrete 24-minute coaching offer. Anthropic states that partner applicants gain Partner Academy access, which includes certification exams. Its June 2026 Services Track update also says new Registered applicants make a minimum commitment to 10 certified practitioners, so the application needs a credible team or associate pathway.

Open Partner Network

Curriculum execution order

1

Model Context Protocol: Advanced Topics

Finish course and replace 2 outlines

Registered
2

Claude Platform 101

Complete and import current platform baseline

Not imported
3

Building with the Claude API

Replace 12 outlines with detailed notes

Completed
4

Claude with Google Cloud's Vertex AI

Finish course and replace 7 outlines

Registered
5

Claude with Amazon Bedrock

Finish course and replace 6 outlines

Registered
6

AI Fluency for Builders

Finish course and import curriculum

Registered
7

AI Fluency for Small Businesses

Import confirmed completion

Completed

Four evidence-based architecture labs

Lab 1Specification ready

Claude API production application

Tools, structured output, caching, evaluation, observability, and failure handling.

Evidence: Runnable service, evaluation report, trace sample, and production-readiness checklist.

Lab 2Specification ready

MCP system

Server and client with tools, resources, prompts, authentication, and notifications.

Evidence: Working integration, protocol trace, threat model, and transport decision record.

Lab 3Specification ready

Claude Code engineering system

CLAUDE.md, Skills, subagents, hooks, GitHub automation, and the SDK.

Evidence: Reference repository, automated workflow, safety boundaries, and maintainers' runbook.

Lab 4Specification ready

Enterprise deployment comparison

Direct Anthropic API versus AWS Bedrock versus Google Vertex AI.

Evidence: Decision matrix covering cost, governance, portability, operations, and deployment patterns.

Next product milestone: 30 high-quality scenario questions

Validate the schema, source links, difficulty labels, distractor rationale, and weak-area tracking before scaling to 150.

Current practice set
CCA Study App·v2.11