Anthropic · Topic 1 of 5
Prompt Engineering and Structured Output
20% of the exam: Claude API fundamentals (stateless messages, system prompts, prefills), explicit criteria over vague instructions, few-shot prompting, JSON-schema structured output, validation/retry loops, the Message Batches API, and multi-pass review architectures.
8 lessons189 questions
What this topic covers
- 01Claude API Fundamentals300m
- 02Explicit Criteria over Vague Instructions300m
- 03Few-shot Prompting300m
- 04Structured Output with JSON Schemas360m
- 05Validation, Retries, and Self-correction300m
- 06The Message Batches API300m
- 07Multi-pass and Multi-instance Review360m
- 08The Tool Use Block: Structure and Lifecycle240m