Prove you understand how the Model Context Protocol works: its hosts, clients, servers, and tools, the message flow and primitives that connect them, and the trust boundaries that keep the connection safe.
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/00-mcp-exam-strategy
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/01-reading-the-specification
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/02-the-integration-problem
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/03-json-rpc-and-meta
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/04-the-stateless-core
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/05-protocol-eras-and-compatibility
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/06-hosts-clients-and-servers
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/07-discovery-and-capability-negotiation
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/08-tool-schemas-and-structured-content
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/09-reading-server-manifests
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/10-model-interaction-flow
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/11-the-tools-primitive
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/12-the-resources-primitive
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/13-prompts-and-completion
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/14-multi-round-trip-requests-and-elicitation
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/15-deprecated-client-features
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/16-notifications-and-subscriptions
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/17-tool-invocation-lifecycle
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/18-error-handling
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/19-transports-and-http-headers
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/20-caching-and-pagination
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/21-long-running-work-and-tasks
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/22-trust-boundaries
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/23-oauth-authorization
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/24-client-registration-and-identity
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/25-consent-and-least-privilege
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/26-risk-and-safety-controls
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/27-auditability-and-observability
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/28-roles-and-adoption
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/29-operational-use-cases
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/30-the-extensions-framework
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/31-mcp-apps
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/32-registry-gateways-and-sdk-tiers
- certifications/mcpa/lessons/33-mcpa-capstone-readiness