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Claude Certified Architect — Foundations

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

  1. 01Claude API Fundamentals300m
  2. 02Explicit Criteria over Vague Instructions300m
  3. 03Few-shot Prompting300m
  4. 04Structured Output with JSON Schemas360m
  5. 05Validation, Retries, and Self-correction300m
  6. 06The Message Batches API300m
  7. 07Multi-pass and Multi-instance Review360m
  8. 08The Tool Use Block: Structure and Lifecycle240m