Claude Certified Architect CCA-F CCAR-F Practice Exams 2026

Two full-length practice exams for the Claude Certified Architect – Foundations (CCAR-F) exam. 120 original questions, and every answer option carries its own explanation — including the wrong ones.

The hard part of this exam is not recall. Most questions drop you into a production system that is failing in a specific way and offer you two options that are both defensible engineering. One of them is the one the exam rewards. Learning to tell those apart is the skill this bank drills, which is why every option carries an explanation of what it does accomplish and why it still loses — not just the credited one.

Built to the exam's published structure. CCAR-F does not ask sixty free-standing questions. The official guide states that the exam draws four scenarios from a bank of six, and every item sits inside one of them. Both forms here are built the same way: four scenarios, fifteen questions each. You practise what the exam actually asks of you — read a production context once, then answer a run of questions against it while keeping the details straight.

Weighted to the published blueprint: Agentic Architecture and Orchestration (27%), Claude Code Configuration and Workflows (20%), Prompt Engineering and Structured Output (20%), Tool Design and MCP Integration (18%), and Context Management and Reliability (15%).

Heaviest coverage where candidates report the most trouble. Structured output carries 24 questions across the two forms: what a schema does and does not guarantee, optional and nullable fields, enum escape values for ambiguous input, format normalisation, validation and retry loops, and the Message Batches API.

Written to the published exam guide only. These are original questions. Never recalled exam content, never scraped question dumps.

Each test runs 120 minutes with a 72% pass mark, matching the real exam's scaled 720 out of 1000. Written by Matthew Hartman, who passed the CCAR-P architect exam with 965 out of 1000.