A free practice exam for the Claude Certified Architect - Professional (CCAR-P) certification. 110 original scenario-based questions, including multiple-response items, each with a rationale, the exam objective it tests, and a reference link to the relevant Anthropic documentation. No sign-up and nothing to install.
About the CCAR-P exam
The CCAR-P certification validates that you can design, build and deliver production-grade AI solutions on Anthropic's Claude platform. The real exam is 63 multiple choice and multiple response items in 120 minutes, proctored online or at a test centre, with criterion-referenced scaled scoring and a pass mark of 720 out of 1000.
Exam domains
D1 - Solution Design & Architecture (17%): translating business problems into Claude solutions, workflow versus agentic patterns, multi-agent orchestration and business value.
D2 - Claude Models, Prompting & Context Engineering (13%): model selection, system prompts and guardrails, few-shot and chain-of-thought, prompt caching, compaction and Skills.
D3 - Integration (19%): least-privilege tools, authentication and authorization, observability, RAG pipeline design, and choosing between MCP, API/CLI and cloud routes.
D4 - Evaluation, Testing & Optimization (16%): metrics, golden datasets, LLM-as-judge, A/B and shadow testing, diagnosing failures, and latency and cost optimization.
D5 - Governance, Safety & Risk Management (14%): guardrails, prompt-injection defence, human-in-the-loop placement, GDPR, HIPAA and FedRAMP, and fairness.
D6 - Stakeholder Communication & Lifecycle Management (14%): discovery, communicating trade-offs, SLAs and feedback loops, and architecture documentation.
D7 - Developer Productivity & Operational Enablement (7%): configuring Claude Code for teams, rolling out AI tooling, and supporting debugging and operations.
Two ways to practice
Practice Mode: 63 questions drawn in the same proportions as the official blueprint, on a 120-minute timer, with flag-for-review and a score report broken down by domain.
Study Mode: browse all 110 questions grouped by domain, reveal answers and rationales as you go, and filter to the areas you are weakest in.
CCAR-F Practice Exam covers the Claude Certified Architect - Foundations certification: 100 scenario-based questions across five domains, with a timed 60-question mock exam.
Important Note
Every question in this app is original, written from the publicly available exam guide and the objectives in its blueprint. Nothing here comes from the real exam, and no question recreates one seen in a test sitting: live exam content is confidential, and every candidate agrees to keep it that way. A high score here is not a guarantee of passing, so pair this practice with hands-on work with Claude and Anthropic's official documentation. This is an independent study aid, not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic.