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Claude Certified Developer - Foundations study guide

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Lessons

  1. Thinking: Adaptive Mode, Effort & Reasoning
  2. Messages API Fundamentals & Request Lifecycl
  3. Streaming & Server-Sent Events — Free Study Guide 2026
  4. Agentic Customization: Built-in Tools, Custo
  5. MCP Architecture & Core Primitives — Free Study Guide 2026
  6. MCP Transports & Client/Server Integration
  7. Tool Execution, Multi-Tool Calls & Error Han
  8. Tool Schema Design & Parameter Validation
  9. Data Privacy, Redaction & Audit Logging
  10. Identity, Secrets & API Key Management — Free Study Guide 2026
  11. Direct & Indirect Prompt Injection Defenses
  12. Tool Permissions, Sandboxing & Least Privile
  13. Claude Code Architecture & Project Configura
  14. Permissions, Modes & Hooks — Free Study Guide 2026
  15. Evaluation Design & Golden Datasets — Free Study Guide 2026
  16. Production Observability, Tracing & Debuggin
  17. Message Batches API & Asynchronous Workloads
  18. Prompt Caching Mechanics & Breakpoints — Free Study Guide 2026
  19. Files API, Document Blocks & Citations — Free Study Guide 2026
  20. Structured Outputs & JSON Extraction — Free Study Guide 2026
  21. API Resilience, Error Handling & Retries
  22. The Claude Application Life Cycle & Configur
  23. Requirements Analysis & Claude Application D
  24. Production Backend Architecture & State Mana
  25. Claude Model Family Selection — Free Study Guide 2026
  26. Latency & Throughput Optimization — Free Study Guide 2026
  27. LLM & Technical Fundamentals: Tokens, Contex
  28. Model Versioning, Snapshot Pinning & Migrati
  29. Context Window Management & Compaction — Free Study Guide 2026
  30. Production Cost Optimization Strategies
  31. Agent vs. Workflow Architectural Foundations
  32. Workflow Patterns: Parallelization & Voting
  33. Workflow Patterns: Prompt Chaining & Routing
  34. Workflow Patterns: Orchestrator-Workers & Ev
  35. Agent Frameworks & Human-in-the-Loop — Free Study Guide 2026
  36. Agent Loop Implementation & State Tracking
  37. Few-Shot Prompting & In-Context Learning
  38. RAG Context Injection & Document Formatting
  39. System Prompt Design & Role Framing — Free Study Guide 2026
  40. XML Tags & Structural Prompt Delimiters