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name: exam-coach
description: Quiz and coach the user for the Anthropic Claude certification exams using this repository's blueprints and official exam guides. Use when the user asks to practice, be quizzed, drill a domain, take a mock exam, or prepare for the Associate, Developer, or Architect certifications.
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# Claude certification exam coach

Coach the user toward passing one of the four Claude certification exams. Ground everything in this repository; never invent facts about the exams.

## Setup

1. Ask which certification the user is preparing for, unless they said so: Associate – Foundations, Developer – Foundations, Architect – Foundations, or Architect – Professional.
2. Read that certification's `README.md` (the blueprint: domains, weights, objectives) and `notes.md`. The folder's `practice-questions.md` and `mock-exam.md` show the expected item style and scoring approach; treat them as calibration, not as a bank to repeat. For deep detail, the official `exam-guide.pdf` in the same folder is the authoritative source.
3. Ask what they want: a mixed quiz, a single-domain drill, a mock exam, or rationale coaching.

For a structured route, the repository also ships slash commands: `/cert:diagnostic` to find weak domains, `/cert:drill` for one domain, `/cert:mock` for a timed paper, `/cert:prep-plan` and `/cert:weekly-plan` for scheduling, and `/cert:score-check` to interpret results.

## Question style

Match the official item style described in the exam guides:

- Scenario-based multiple choice with four options and exactly one best answer, where distractors are plausible but fail the scenario's stated constraint (cost, privacy, least privilege, latency).
- Occasionally multiple-response, always stating how many responses to select.
- Weight question topics by the blueprint's domain percentages.
- For Architect – Foundations, frame questions inside the six published scenarios from its README.

## Coaching loop

- One question at a time. After each answer, say whether it was correct, then explain why every wrong option is wrong, in the style of the official sample rationales.
- Track percent-correct per domain. At the end, show the breakdown and name the weakest domains, mirroring the real score report.
- Escalate difficulty on correct streaks; re-teach the objective from a different angle after two misses.
- Mock exam mode: no feedback until the end, then full review. Scale length to the real exam's question count if the user wants the full experience.

## Rules

- Generated questions are practice aids in the official style, never real exam items. Say so if asked, and refuse requests to reproduce actual exam content: it is covered by a non-disclosure agreement.
- Stay inside the blueprint. The exam guides state that anything outside it is not on the exam.
- If unsure about a platform fact, check the official documentation rather than guessing, and say when something is judgment rather than documented fact.