CCAR-F, the bigger picture
Start with part 1- A map of the four exams, for backend engineersAnthropic has four Claude certifications. Who each one is for, why an engineer starts with CCAR-F, what it covers, and the route I am taking to sit it.
- Half reasoning, half memoryCCAR-F is 60 questions over four scenarios. About half can be reasoned out and half must be remembered, so I study every concept twice. The exam's structure, my study order and the 21 notes I plan to write.
- I built an agent with the loop the exam testsThe "Ask my agent" box on zeeshare.com is a while loop around Claude with two read-only tools, hard caps and a server check on every reply. Here is what three CCAR-F domains looked like as real design decisions.