How vkorost/claude-certified-architect-professional-guide works
This repository is a practitioner guide for the Claude Certified Architect – Professional exam, not a software runtime. Its principal workflow is a learner moving through architecture decisions in the order the book argues the work happens: discovery and feasibility, design, system integration, proof, governance, handover, and team enablement. The chapter sequence and coverage map are documented in the README; no source excerpts were provided, so the graph shows only that documented reading flow and does not infer implementation relationships.
Main entry points: 00-preface.md Preface · 01-what-you-are-being-asked-to-decide.md Decision framing · 02-discovery-is-elicitation.md Discovery · 03-sizing-scoping-feasibility.md Feasibility
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Frame the problem
- Preface
book/chapters/00-preface.md - Decision framing
book/chapters/01-what-you-are-being-asked-to-decide.md - Discovery
book/chapters/02-discovery-is-elicitation.md - Feasibility
book/chapters/03-sizing-scoping-feasibility.md
Choose the architecture
- Architecture patterns
book/chapters/04-augmented-call-workflow-agent.md - Agent boundaries
book/chapters/05-when-a-second-agent-is-a-liability.md - Reference architectures
book/chapters/06-reference-architectures-and-live-state.md - Context strategy
book/chapters/07-model-context-window-context-strategy.md - Prompt architecture
book/chapters/08-prompts-as-architecture.md
Build and prove
- Retrieval design
book/chapters/09-chunking-indexing-retrieval.md - Entry points and integration
book/chapters/10-entry-points-routes-integration.md - Sizing the economics
book/chapters/11-the-numbers-before-you-build.md - Observability
book/chapters/12-observability-at-scale.md - Evaluation criteria
book/chapters/13-evals-as-acceptance-criteria.md - A/B and shadow tests
book/chapters/14-ab-shadow-and-not-overclaiming.md
Govern and hand over
- Safety and guardrails
book/chapters/15-the-safety-stack-and-guardrail-placement.md - Human review
book/chapters/16-human-review-by-stakes.md - Evidence and proof
book/chapters/17-proving-it-to-someone-who-was-not-there.md - Design defense
book/chapters/18-defending-the-design.md - Feedback and SLAs
book/chapters/19-feedback-loops-and-slas.md - Durable documentation
book/chapters/20-documentation-that-survives.md - Team enablement
book/chapters/21-team-enablement-and-debugging.md - Objective coverage map
book/chapters/95-coverage-map.md - Glossary
book/chapters/96-glossary.md
Other components
- Practitioner learner
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- Practitioner learner → Preface: reads guide
README.md - Preface → Decision framing: continues to
README.md - Decision framing → Discovery: continues to
README.md - Discovery → Feasibility: continues to
README.md - Feasibility → Architecture patterns: continues to
README.md - Architecture patterns → Agent boundaries: continues to
README.md - Agent boundaries → Reference architectures: continues to
README.md - Reference architectures → Context strategy: continues to
README.md - Context strategy → Prompt architecture: continues to
README.md - Prompt architecture → Retrieval design: continues to
README.md - Retrieval design → Entry points and integration: continues to
README.md - Entry points and integration → Sizing the economics: continues to
README.md - Sizing the economics → Observability: continues to
README.md - Observability → Evaluation criteria: continues to
README.md - Evaluation criteria → A/B and shadow tests: continues to
README.md - A/B and shadow tests → Safety and guardrails: continues to
README.md - Safety and guardrails → Human review: continues to
README.md - Human review → Evidence and proof: continues to
README.md - Evidence and proof → Design defense: continues to
README.md - Design defense → Feedback and SLAs: continues to
README.md - Feedback and SLAs → Durable documentation: continues to
README.md - Durable documentation → Team enablement: continues to
README.md