CCA-F curriculum inventory

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Five official CCA-F exam domains, eight scenarios, and the specific task areas tested within each domain. No login required to browse this inventory.

5 exam domains
Domain 1Agentic Architecture & Orchestration
27% of exam

Coordinator and subagent patterns, multi-agent topology, task decomposition, and session-state management. Covers how agents delegate work, route to specialists, recover from failures, and maintain coherent state across a pipeline.

  • Coordinator / subagent orchestration and delegation boundaries
  • Hub-and-spoke vs. peer-to-peer multi-agent topologies
  • Fixed vs. dynamic task decomposition and workflow selection
  • Session state, resumption, and pipeline fork recovery
  • Escalation routing and authority-level handling
  • Agent loop lifecycle: plan, tool call, observe, decide
Domain 2Tool Design & MCP Integration
18% of exam

Designing effective tool interfaces, writing parameter descriptions that guide correct model behavior, MCP error protocol layering, and controlling tool availability via allowedTools and tool_choice.

  • Tool interface design: parameter descriptions and boundary definitions
  • MCP structured error responses and isError semantics
  • Tool distribution: allowedTools, tool_choice, and subagent scope
  • Companion tool patterns and error recovery flows
  • Tool schema token budget and selection reliability trade-offs
  • Protocol layer boundaries between MCP and application error handling
Domain 3Claude Code Configuration & Workflows
20% of exam

Claude Code CLI configuration, CI/CD integration, CLAUDE.md authoring, slash commands, MCP server setup, and production-grade agentic workflow patterns for developer productivity.

  • CLAUDE.md structure and project-level configuration
  • Claude Code in CI/CD pipelines (--output-format json, non-interactive modes)
  • MCP server configuration and tool registration
  • Slash commands and workflow automation
  • Permission scope and trust levels in Claude Code
  • Personal vs. project skill precedence and override behavior
Domain 4Prompt Engineering & Structured Output
20% of exam

JSON schema design for tool use, structured extraction patterns, validation-and-retry loops, semantic vs. syntax error handling, and prompt-level normalization for consistent structured output.

  • Structured output via tool_use and JSON schema definitions
  • Validation, retry, and feedback loops for extraction quality
  • Semantic vs. syntax error classification and handling
  • Prompt-level normalization for consistent field extraction
  • Schema envelope integrity and data completeness contracts
  • tool_choice: auto / any / specific — when to use each
Domain 5Context Management & Reliability
15% of exam

Preserving facts across long interactions, multi-turn drift detection, ephemeral state injection, escalation for ambiguity resolution, and reinforcement injection patterns that degrade output quality over time.

  • Context preservation across long multi-turn interactions
  • Three-cause drift framework: compression, recency bias, reinforcement injection
  • Differential compression and "lost in the middle" mitigation
  • Ephemeral state injection patterns and session scope
  • Escalation vs. auto-resolution in ambiguous customer support flows
  • Within-conversation contradiction detection and consistency maintenance
8 scenarios
8 scenarios

Each exam form presents 4 of the 6 core scenarios. All 8 are available for drill practice.

  1. Customer Support Resolution Agent
  2. Code Generation with Claude Code
  3. Multi-Agent Research System
  4. Developer Productivity with Claude
  5. Claude Code for CI/CD
  6. Structured Data Extraction
  7. Conversational AI Architecture Patterns
  8. Tool Design & MCP Patterns

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