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Claude Certified Architect - Professional Prep Course

Learn to design, integrate, and govern production-grade Claude systems end to end, and to defend those design decisions to the stakeholders who fund and approve them.

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By the time an Architect is involved, the question is no longer whether Claude can do the task; it is whether the systems around Claude will integrate and operate as needed. A reference architecture chosen incorrectly is expensive to switch, an integration that skips security review never reaches production, a safety control merely assumed fails at the worst moment, and a design that only the Architect understands falls apart the moment they leave the room. These decisions, what work Claude owns, what form that work takes, which architecture fits, and where each control sits, are made before anyone writes a line of code. This course teaches the end-to-end system designer to make those decisions, defend them against credible alternatives, and deliver solutions that pass security review, earn stakeholder sign-off, and outlast the handoff.

Learning objectives
By the end of this course, you'll be able to:

  • Translate an ambiguous business problem into a scoped Claude solution, selecting the reference architecture, model, context strategy, and entry point that keep it accurate and cost-conscious
  • Take a solution from proof of concept to production by mapping cost, latency, and reliability to a budget and specifying the integration patterns an enterprise will accept
  • Design the full safety stack for a Claude system, placing input screening, output screening, and tool-call authorization so the system fails closed rather than open
  • Build evaluations as acceptance criteria and use them as the gate before any model or architecture change
  • Route decisions to the right reviewer based on confidence, reversibility, and cost, and map each compliance obligation to a named control, owner, and evidence artifact
  • Run structured discovery with non-technical stakeholders, present architectural trade-offs they can act on, and design a handoff that survives your absence
  • Enable a team to adopt and operate a live Claude system, from shared configuration and rollout to developer workflows and operational issue resolution

Prerequisites
Before starting this course, we recommend you complete: Claude 101, Claude Code in Action, AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations, Building with the Claude API, Introduction to Model Context Protocol, and AI Capabilities and Limitations.

Who this is for
The Claude Certified Architect Professional course is for the end-to-end Claude system designer who shapes and delivers client solutions from discovery through production design. It suits individuals with experience designing, building, and delivering production-grade AI solutions and using Claude in an architect role.

This course contains the following lessons: