Domain 6·11% of exam·7 concepts

Prompt and Context Engineering

Engineer prompts and context for Claude: instruction clarity, few-shot examples, context-window management, and structured, defensively-parsed output.

6.1

Context Engineering (3.8%): Context and memory management techniques for Claude applications, including context window management, prevention of context drift and bloat (tool output pruning, compaction), and context isolation through subagents or multi-step agentic workflows.

6.2

Prompt Engineering (4.6%): Prompt engineering principles and methods (instruction clarity, few-shot examples, system versus user placement, output constraints, prompt and instruction placement across components, iterative refinement, prompt adjustment, input sanitization) when writing and iterating on prompts for Claude.

6.3

Output Handling (2.6%): Established patterns and techniques for producing, validating, and consuming Claude output, including structured output patterns, response validation, defensive parsing, and skepticism toward confident output.

Other exam domains

Domain 1 · 14.7%Agents and Workflows Domain 2 · 33.1%Applications and Integration Domain 3 · 3.1%Claude Code Domain 4 · 2.6%Eval, Testing, and Debugging Domain 5 · 16.8%Model Selection and Optimization Domain 7 · 8.1%Security and Safety Domain 8 · 10.6%Tools and MCPs

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