Claude Certified Architect – Professional (CCAR-P) practice exam and questions

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

Solution Design & Architecture17%

Claude Models, Prompting & Context Engineering13%

Integration19%

Evaluation, Testing & Optimization16%

Governance, Safety & Risk Management14%

Stakeholder Communication & Lifecycle Management14%

Developer Productivity & Operational Enablement7%

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QUESTION 1 OF 5

A bank must show that every recorded sales call included the required risk disclosures, but its reviewers can listen to only a few percent of the calls.

Which Claude-based solution best fits this problem?

A
Give each sales agent a live Claude assistant that prompts them on screen when a required disclosure is still unread.
B
Have Claude summarize each recorded call into the CRM, so that reviewers read short summaries instead of listening.
C
Transcribe the calls and have Claude check each transcript against the disclosure list, queuing likely gaps for a reviewer.
D
Build a retrieval assistant over the disclosure rules that answers agents' and reviewers' questions about what each product requires.

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Answer: C

The bank needs evidence for every call, and reviewers can listen to only a few percent. Checking a transcript against a fixed list of disclosures is a repeatable classification task Claude can run on every call. Sending only likely gaps to a reviewer spends scarce review time where it is needed.

QUESTION 2 OF 5

An architect needs an SMS assistant to reply in natural sentences, but its system prompt is written in headers and bullet lists and says 'Do not use markdown'.

Which change BEST meets the need?

A
Restate the no-markdown rule as an emphatic prohibition in capitals at both the start and the end of the prompt.
B
Strip markdown symbols from each reply in code after generation and before the message goes out to the customer.
C
Rewrite the system prompt itself in plain paragraphs and describe the wanted reply as smoothly flowing prose.
D
Return each reply through structured outputs, with a JSON schema whose single reply field is a plain string.

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Answer: C

Claude tends to mirror the formatting of the prompt it reads, so a prompt built from headers and bullet lists invites bulleted replies. 'Do not use markdown' names the unwanted format without describing the wanted one. Rewriting the prompt in plain paragraphs and asking for flowing prose fixes both at the source.

QUESTION 3 OF 5

An architect must constrain a summarization agent whose web fetch tool reads three vendor documentation sites, after a security review found injected pages could steer it to arbitrary URLs.

Which configuration change fits BEST?

A
Add a system-prompt rule telling the agent to fetch pages from the three vendor documentation sites and nowhere else.
B
Replace web fetch with the web search tool so the agent reaches pages through search results instead of raw URLs.
C
Restrict the web fetch tool to the three documentation domains and cap the number of fetches per request.
D
Send the agent's outbound traffic through an egress proxy that logs each URL it fetches for later review.

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Answer: C

The agent needs web access, but only to three known sites. Allowed domains on the web fetch tool turn that into a boundary the API enforces, so a planted link to another host is not fetched. A cap on fetches per request limits what a hijacked run can do.

QUESTION 4 OF 5

A team is building a capability eval for its new procurement agent, running 100 trials of each task on the most capable model. One task, which asks the agent to export a vendor comparison as a spreadsheet, passes 0 of 100 trials, while similar tasks pass 40 to 70 percent. The product lead wants to record it as a capability the model lacks and move on.

What should the architect do FIRST?

A
Read the task's transcripts and check its specification and grader against a known working solution.
B
Move the task to a backlog of capability targets and rerun it whenever a more capable model is released.
C
Rewrite the agent's system prompt with step-by-step guidance for this task and rerun the 100 trials.
D
Add partial credit to the task's grader so that progress on its separate steps shows up in the score.

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Answer: A

With a capable model, zero passes in 100 trials while similar tasks pass often points to a broken task, not a missing capability: a file name the grader expects but the task never states, a grader that rejects valid output, or an environment that blocks the export. Transcripts show whether the agent made a real mistake, and a known working solution proves the task can be passed.

QUESTION 5 OF 5

An architect learns that a marketing campaign next week is expected to multiply a Claude-backed app's API traffic tenfold within its first hour.

What should the architect do?

A
Rely on the organization's usage tier to absorb the expected spike, since its rate limits rise automatically as monthly spending grows.
B
Add retries with exponential backoff on 429 responses, so requests rejected during the spike succeed on a later attempt.
C
Queue the marketing campaign's requests and process them through the Message Batches API until traffic returns to normal levels.
D
Tell the account team about the expected volume now, and agree with marketing on a launch that ramps traffic up gradually.

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Answer: D

A sharp jump in usage can hit acceleration limits and return 429 errors even within an organization's normal rate limits. Telling the account team about the volume early, and agreeing a gradual ramp with marketing, matches the launch to what the API can serve.

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How close are these questions to the CCAR-P exam?

Close in difficulty: they are written at the level of the CCAR-P 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 CCAR-P practice questions are free?

20 of the 253. The first 5 need no signup; a free account unlocks the rest.

How many questions are on the CCAR-P exam, and how long is it?

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

What is the CCAR-P 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 CCAR-P exam cost, and what are the retake rules?

The list price is $175, and the exam fee applies to each attempt. You wait 14, 30 and 90 days after the first, second and third fail, with a maximum of 4 attempts per exam per rolling 12 months. See the Claude certification cost.

Do I need CCAR-F before taking the Claude Certified Architect - Professional exam?

No. The guide states there are no mandatory prerequisites or courses, and Professional does not require holding Foundations. Recommended experience includes 3 or more years in systems architecture or platform engineering and 6 or more months hands-on with Claude or comparable LLM systems in production. See the Who can take a Claude certification exam.

What topics does the CCAR-P exam cover?

Seven domains: Solution Design & Architecture (17%), Claude Models, Prompting & Context Engineering (13%), Integration (19%), Evaluation, Testing & Optimization (16%), Governance, Safety & Risk Management (14%), Stakeholder Communication & Lifecycle Management (14%), and Developer Productivity & Operational Enablement (7%). The weights are the approximate proportion of scored items drawn from each domain. See the Claude Certified Architect Professional (CCAR-P) exam.

How is the CCAR-P exam delivered?

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

How long is the Claude Certified Architect - Professional credential valid?

12 months from the award date. On-time renewal is free through a non-proctored assessment on the Anthropic Partner Academy; a lapsed credential means retaking the full exam at the full fee.

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