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Decisions, documentation, and the lifecycle
CCAR-P · Lesson 17 of 18 · 2:07:35
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In this lesson
Prepare for the Claude Certified Architect – Professional exam, on the exam guide version 1.0, effective July 2026. In this lesson: architecture decision records, communicating trade-offs to each audience, documenting the architecture (diagrams, inventories, evaluations, implementation guidance, runbooks), the lifecycle phases from discovery to iteration, model retirements, and a handoff done right. Includes three original practice questions.
Preview the topics
- Harborline’s architect must explain to the executive committee why the assistant uses Sonnet with retrieval rather than Opus. What should the briefing focus on?
- At two in the morning, the claims assistant fails on every request, and the engineer on call has never worked on it. Which document should already exist?
- The model that Harborline pinned has a retirement date next year. What should happen?