Claude Certified Associate – Foundations (CCAO-F) practice exam and questions

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Anthropic splits CCAO-F into seven topics, weighted like this. The set covers them all.

Prompting and Task Execution14%

Output Evaluation and Validation21%

Product and Model Selection12%

Workflow Integration and Solution Design16%

Configuration and Knowledge Management12%

Governance, Risk, and Responsible Use15%

Troubleshooting and Optimization10%

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QUESTION 1 OF 5

A nonprofit's development officer must turn a program report, a budget spreadsheet and partner letters into a five-section grant application. Every section cites the same participant counts and costs, and a single long prompt produced different figures in different sections.

Which way of breaking up the work is MOST appropriate?

A
Draft each section in its own chat, attaching the three source files to every one of those chats.
B
Summarize each source file in its own prompt, then draft the application from the three summaries.
C
Have Claude first build one table of the shared figures, check it, then draft each section from it.
D
Redraft the whole application in one prompt, then ask Claude to review its figures for consistency.

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Answer: C

The sections disagree because each one pulled the shared counts and costs from the sources separately. Extracting the figures once into a table, and checking it against the spreadsheet, gives every section the same verified numbers.

QUESTION 2 OF 5

Asked for the main themes in 120 survey responses, Claude led with "customers mainly want more parking." The file, in date order, holds 14 parking requests totaling 2,600 words, mostly in the final week, and 38 repair-service requests totaling 500 words, spread across the month.

Which flaw BEST describes this summary?

A
It echoes a view suggested in the request instead of the responses, giving the answer the asker seemed to expect.
B
It favors the request that sounds new and unusual, so a novel idea leads the summary over a routine one.
C
It drops the responses near the end of the file, so the feedback from later in the month goes missing.
D
It gives the longest responses more weight than their number justifies, so the many brief ones barely count.

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Answer: D

Count the customers: 38 asked for a repair service and 14 for parking, but the parking requests hold about five times as many words. A summary that follows the volume of text instead of the number of people reverses what most customers asked for.

QUESTION 3 OF 5

A finance team's first Claude pilot must improve one figure next quarter without worsening another. No payment has gone out wrong in four quarters. Supplier queries take six days to answer; the ledger check is quick, and most of the time goes into writing each reply. The backlog holds 1,400 invoices.

Which task is the BEST choice for the pilot?

A
Having Claude check each payment run against its invoices and flag any mismatch before staff release it.
B
Having Claude draft a business case for buying an invoice capture system that would clear the backlog.
C
Having Claude draft replies to supplier questions on invoice status from ledger records, for staff to check.
D
Having Claude read scanned supplier invoices into the ledger, with staff spot-checking one entry in ten.

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Answer: C

The ledger check is quick; the six days go into writing replies. Drafts built from ledger records take over that slow step and can cut the turnaround this quarter. Staff still check each draft, and payments, the figure that must not get worse, are left untouched.

QUESTION 4 OF 5

A communications lead's private Project holds the brand guidelines, added as a Google Doc from Drive. Last week the brand team put the logo spacing requirements into it as annotated diagrams. Claude still answers tone questions well but says the guidelines give no logo spacing.

Which change is MOST likely to fix this?

A
Write out the logo guidance as plain sentences in the same Google Doc that the project already syncs.
B
Remove the Google Doc from the project files, then add it again from Drive to load last week's edits.
C
Add a project instruction telling Claude to consult the brand guidelines before answering any logo question.
D
Split the brand guidelines into shorter Google Docs, one per topic, so Claude finds the logo section faster.

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Answer: A

When Claude reads a Google Drive file it takes in the text and skips embedded images. Spacing rules that exist only as diagrams never reach Claude, so they need to be written out as words in the doc.

QUESTION 5 OF 5

An events coordinator plans to have Claude answer attendee emails from the team's Gmail account each morning, sending replies without approving each one. The replies are signed 'Priya, Events Team', although no one named Priya works there.

Which change BEST addresses the ethical problem with this plan?

A
Sign each reply as the events team's AI assistant instead of Priya, so attendees know no person wrote it.
B
Turn approval back on so a staff member checks each of Priya's replies before Claude sends it.
C
Add a notice to the event website explaining that the events team uses AI tools to answer attendee emails.
D
Let Claude send Priya's routine answers on its own and pass any complaint or refund request to a staff member.

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Answer: A

The problem is the signature, not the automation: every reply presents a person who does not exist. Anthropic's Usage Policy rules out fake personas that convince people they are dealing with a human. Signing as the team's AI assistant tells each reader who answered, and routine replies can still go out without approval.

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How close are these questions to the CCAO-F exam?

Close in difficulty: they are written at the level of the CCAO-F exam and to its official topics, so you are not practising on questions easier or harder than the ones you will sit. They are not questions taken from the exam, and each one comes with an explanation.

How many CCAO-F practice questions are free?

20 of the 300. The first 5 need no signup; a free account unlocks the rest.

How many questions are on the CCAO-F exam, and how long is it?

60 items in 120 minutes. Items are multiple-choice or multiple-response, and each item states how many responses to select.

What is the CCAO-F passing score?

720, on a scale of 100 to 1,000. Scoring is measured against a fixed standard, not a curve.

How much does the CCAO-F exam cost, and what are the retake rules?

The list price is $99, and the exam fee applies to each attempt. You wait 14, 30 and 90 days after the first, second and third fail, with up to 4 attempts per exam in a rolling 12 months. See the Claude certification cost.

Are there any prerequisites for the Claude Certified Associate - Foundations?

No. The exam guide states there are no mandatory prerequisites or required courses, and no software-development or API experience is needed. Regular hands-on use of Claude at work is recommended, not required. See the Who can take a Claude certification exam.

What topics does the CCAO-F exam cover?

Seven domains: Prompting and Task Execution (14%), Output Evaluation and Validation (21%), Product and Model Selection (12%), Workflow Integration and Solution Design (16%), Configuration and Knowledge Management (12%), Governance, Risk, and Responsible Use (15%), and Troubleshooting and Optimization (10%). The weights are the approximate proportion of scored items drawn from each domain. See the Claude Certified Associate (CCAO-F) exam.

How is the CCAO-F exam delivered?

It is proctored through Pearson VUE, online proctored and/or at a test center, per program policy. You register through the Anthropic Partner Academy.

How long is the Claude Certified Associate - Foundations credential valid?

12 months from the award date. You can renew with a free, non-proctored assessment on the Partner Academy before it lapses; a lapsed credential means retaking the full exam at the full fee.

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