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Claude Certified Developer - Foundations study guide
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Lessons
- Thinking: Adaptive Mode, Effort & Reasoning
- Messages API Fundamentals & Request Lifecycl
- Streaming & Server-Sent Events — Free Study Guide 2026
- Agentic Customization: Built-in Tools, Custo
- MCP Architecture & Core Primitives — Free Study Guide 2026
- MCP Transports & Client/Server Integration
- Tool Execution, Multi-Tool Calls & Error Han
- Tool Schema Design & Parameter Validation
- Data Privacy, Redaction & Audit Logging
- Identity, Secrets & API Key Management — Free Study Guide 2026
- Direct & Indirect Prompt Injection Defenses
- Tool Permissions, Sandboxing & Least Privile
- Claude Code Architecture & Project Configura
- Permissions, Modes & Hooks — Free Study Guide 2026
- Evaluation Design & Golden Datasets — Free Study Guide 2026
- Production Observability, Tracing & Debuggin
- Message Batches API & Asynchronous Workloads
- Prompt Caching Mechanics & Breakpoints — Free Study Guide 2026
- Files API, Document Blocks & Citations — Free Study Guide 2026
- Structured Outputs & JSON Extraction — Free Study Guide 2026
- API Resilience, Error Handling & Retries
- The Claude Application Life Cycle & Configur
- Requirements Analysis & Claude Application D
- Production Backend Architecture & State Mana
- Claude Model Family Selection — Free Study Guide 2026
- Latency & Throughput Optimization — Free Study Guide 2026
- LLM & Technical Fundamentals: Tokens, Contex
- Model Versioning, Snapshot Pinning & Migrati
- Context Window Management & Compaction — Free Study Guide 2026
- Production Cost Optimization Strategies
- Agent vs. Workflow Architectural Foundations
- Workflow Patterns: Parallelization & Voting
- Workflow Patterns: Prompt Chaining & Routing
- Workflow Patterns: Orchestrator-Workers & Ev
- Agent Frameworks & Human-in-the-Loop — Free Study Guide 2026
- Agent Loop Implementation & State Tracking
- Few-Shot Prompting & In-Context Learning
- RAG Context Injection & Document Formatting
- System Prompt Design & Role Framing — Free Study Guide 2026
- XML Tags & Structural Prompt Delimiters