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CCAR-PClaude Certified Architect - Professional
Show professional judgement across enterprise solution design, integration, evaluation, safety, governance and operations.
Request CCAR-P ($225)
The total includes the published $175 exam fee and a $50 service fee. Payment opens after we confirm your place.
Request CCAR-PLast verified: 30 July 2026
CCAR-P at a glance.
| Role fit | Experienced architects delivering enterprise Claude systems |
|---|---|
| Exam items | 63 |
| Exam time | 120 minutes |
| Scaled passing score | 720 |
| Credential validity | 12 months |
| Published exam fee | $175 |
| Service fee | $50 |
| Total through Timo | $225 |
The total includes one official exam attempt. Payment opens after we confirm your place. Fees and policies can change.
Choose CCAR-P when it matches your work.
- You own architecture decisions across business, data, security, platform and operations teams.
- You have taken Claude or comparable AI systems from discovery into production.
- You can defend trade-offs among quality, safety, cost, latency, control and organisational readiness.
Topics to cover for CCAR-P.
Use the public exam guide as your checklist, then practise each topic in a work scenario.
Solution architecture
Translate business outcomes and constraints into a system design, operating model and measurable acceptance criteria.
Model, platform and context choices
Choose models, deployment platforms and context strategies based on data boundaries, quality, cost, latency and change control.
Enterprise integration
Define interfaces with identity, data, workflow, monitoring and human-approval systems, including failure ownership.
Evaluation, safety and risk
Use pre-release tests, runtime controls, evidence and escalation rules that match the consequence of each action.
Governance and compliance
Map policy obligations to technical and operating controls, record decisions and preserve review evidence.
Stakeholder and lifecycle decisions
Run discovery, resolve trade-offs, plan rollout, observability, incident response, change control and retirement.
Practice project: A multi-region service agent with identity controls, governed knowledge sources, approval thresholds, evaluation gates, incident ownership and cost limits.
Exam access, preparation and registration support.
- An individual account used for certification access and registration.
- The official guide and preparation resources available for CCAR-P.
- Registration support and one official exam attempt.
- The option to add a guided study session.
- After passing, the option to receive job alerts and project opportunities from Timo.
Opportunity alerts are optional. Certification does not guarantee an interview, project or job.
Add a live review when you want direct feedback.
Bring your study priorities, diagnostic result, questions and one relevant work example.
Private session, 60 minutes: $199
One-to-one review of your weak topics, practice results, questions and work example. You leave with a focused study plan.
Small group, up to five people: $49 per person
Guided review of key topics, practical examples and live Q&A. You leave with topic priorities and notes from the discussion.
Open group, up to ten people: $29 per person
Guided review of common exam topics and live Q&A. You leave with a final revision checklist.
Guided sessions are optional. Tick the ones you want quoted on the request form.
Request a place, prepare, then schedule the exam.
Send your CCAR-P request
Enter your name and email, tick any optional guided session and send the request. This form charges nothing.
Confirm and prepare
Timo confirms your place and the total, sends the payment details, then sends the steps for the official guide, preparation and registration.
Schedule and take the exam
Pearson VUE provides online or test-centre scheduling and proctoring. Use the same legal name as your government-issued ID. After a pass, Anthropic awards the credential and Credly issues the badge.