Optimization

What this is about # Domain 7 of the Claude Certified Associate – Foundations exam is Troubleshooting and Optimization. It’s worth 10% — the lightest domain on the exam. But it’s the one that closes the loop on the other six: everything from prompting to configuration to model selection eventually produces an output that underperforms, and this domain is the discipline of tracing that failure to its root cause, fixing it, and making sure the fix persists instead of getting re-discovered next week.