CCAR-F Practice Exam

A free practice exam for the Claude Certified Architect - Foundations (CCAR-F) certification. 100 original scenario-based questions, each with a detailed rationale, an explanation of why the other options are wrong, and a reference link to the relevant Anthropic documentation. No sign-up and nothing to install.

About the CCAR-F exam

The CCAR-F certification validates your ability to design, build and optimize AI-powered applications using Claude and the Anthropic platform. The real exam is 60 multiple choice questions in 120 minutes, delivered online proctored, and uses scaled scoring with a pass mark of 720 out of 1000.

Exam domains

• D1 - Agentic Architecture & Orchestration (27%): the agent loop, stop_reason handling, task decomposition, subagent delegation and multi-agent coordination.
• D2 - Tool Design & MCP Integration (18%): tool schemas, precise descriptions, actionable error messages, right-sized tool catalogs and exposing tools over MCP.
• D3 - Claude Code Configuration & Workflows (20%): CLAUDE.md memory, custom slash commands, hooks, permission scoping, sessions and CI/CD integration.
• D4 - Prompt Engineering & Structured Output (20%): JSON schemas via tool_use, required versus optional fields, validation and repair loops, and batching for cost.
• D5 - Context Management & Reliability (15%): context window budgeting, compaction, preserving citations through summarization and recovering state after failure.

Two ways to practice

• Practice Mode: 60 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 100 questions grouped by domain, reveal answers and rationales as you go, and filter to the areas you are weakest in.

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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.