CCA Foundations · v0.1
An interactive curriculum
for the Claude Certified Agent exam.
Six scenarios. Zero motivational filler. Each one teaches a production pattern the exam rewards and the anti‑pattern it rewards you for recognising.
Scenarios
3 of 6 published · more publishing weekly
- 01 Customer Support Agent Published Prompt vs Hook — why production guarantees live in code, not instructions.
- 02 Coding Assistant Published Subagent isolation and why the context window is a budget, not a stage.
- 03 Research & Analysis Agent Published Why broad delegation converges, and the decomposition pattern that doesn’t.
- 04 Content Moderation Agent Planned Policy gates, graduated response, and what escalation actually returns.
- 05 Workflow Orchestrator Planned State machines under an agent, idempotent steps, failure handoffs.
- 06 Structured Data Extraction Planned Schema enforcement, partial‑result contracts, and the retry envelope.
How to use this
Read straight through. Run every interactive. Take the self‑check before scrolling on.
Each scenario is a single page. The interactive at the top is load‑bearing — it isn’t decoration. Running it is the fastest way to internalise the distinction the exam tests for. The callouts labelled Exam trap mark answers that read correctly but fail in production; these are the ones examiners build distractors around.
The self‑check at the bottom of each scenario is three exam‑calibration questions, not a completion gate. If you score 3/3 on first attempt you have the pattern. If you miss one, the distractor you fell for is the lesson — re‑read that section.