Head to head
Cred Farmer vs CCAFPractice.com: which should you use?
Cred Farmer scores higher under every reader profile published here, but CCAFPractice.com still wins on specific criteria listed below.
Cred Farmer publishes this comparison and is one of the two platforms in it. Every figure below links to CCAFPractice.com's own page and carries the date we read it. The verdict is computed from published weightings, not written by us.
- The homepage's meta description — the text search engines and link previews display — reads "Use our free CCA-F practice exam to test your knowledge. Over 200+ questions and 3 different exams available for FREE", while the About page says "180 original questions in total", the /practice counter reads 180, and the page source contains exactly 180 question cards with 180 distinct stems.
- The homepage promises feedback as you answer — "See the correct answer the moment you respond, with clear explanations that turn every mistake into a lesson" and, under its sample question, "Answer revealed instantly — with the reasoning behind it." The exam does not behave that way: selecting an option reveals nothing, and the correct answer and rationale are un-hidden only inside the grading routine that runs when all 60 questions are submitted. Their own /practice page describes the real behaviour instead: "Answer everything, then submit for a scored report with full rationales."
- A homepage feature card headed "Track your progress" says "Watch your score climb as you go. Review what you missed and keep practicing until it sticks." Nothing on the site persists anything: there are no accounts, the only browser storage is a light/dark theme key, and Retake reloads the page and discards the score and the per-domain breakdown.
- The site brands the exam "CCAF" and "CCA-F". Anthropic's exam guide publishes the code CCAR-F for that certification, and the string CCAR appears nowhere on the site — a candidate who takes the abbreviation at face value will be searching for a code that the certification body does not use.
Who wins, by what you need
Each row is that profile's published weighting applied to both platforms' criterion scores. Nothing here is hand-assigned — change the weights and the winners change.
| If you say… | Cred Farmer | CCAFPractice.com | Better fit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Balanced overall | 82 | 36 | Cred Farmer |
| I want one system for all four exams | 84 | 37 | Cred Farmer |
| I only need one exam | 83 | 36 | Cred Farmer |
| I want the best free option | 83 | 53 | Cred Farmer |
| I learn from video or an instructor | 48 | 23 | Cred Farmer |
| My exam is in two weeks | 91 | 41 | Cred Farmer |
| I am preparing a team | 64 | 29 | Cred Farmer |
What each one is better at
Where CCAFPractice.com is stronger
- The five domains it tests are the five domains of the official CCAR-F blueprint, four of them named verbatim as the exam guide names them (Tool Design & MCP Integration, Claude Code Configuration & Workflows, Prompt Engineering & Structured Output, Context Management & Reliability), and the end-of-exam report scores you against those same five domains rather than against generic topic labels.
- It is genuinely open: no signup, no login, no email wall, no paywall and no metered limit. All 180 questions and every rationale are served in the raw HTML to an anonymous request with no cookies, so a candidate can start answering without handing over anything.
- The timed simulation matches the real exam on the details that can be checked: a 120-minute countdown against an official limit that is also 120 minutes, one question at a time with a jump-to-question index and an answered-count ring, and submit-then-score delivery rather than a per-question reveal.
- Every one of the 180 items carries a written rationale, and the rationales address why the distractors are wrong rather than only restating the key.
- Its integrity posture is careful for a free site: the non-affiliation disclaimer runs on every page, the questions are declared original and unofficial, the 75% mark is explicitly labelled an unofficial study target rather than the real cut score, and there are no testimonials, ratings or partnership claims anywhere.
- The answer key is evenly distributed across the bank — exactly 45 items each keyed A, B, C and D across the 180 — so a candidate cannot pattern-match a favoured letter.
- Value and access: scores 5/5 against our 4/5.
Where Cred Farmer is stronger
- Retention system: we score 5/5 against their 0/5.
- Structured learning: we score 4/5 against their 0/5.
- Certification coverage: we score 5/5 against their 2/5.
- Diagnostics and personalisation: we score 5/5 against their 2/5.
- Practice depth: we score 4/5 against their 2/5.
- Mock-exam realism: we score 5/5 against their 3/5.
- Evidence and transparency: we score 4/5 against their 2/5.
Feature by feature
Expand any cell to see the words we read and where we read them. If a link no longer says what we quote, the figure is out of date and we want to know.
| Cred Farmer | CCAFPractice.com | |
|---|---|---|
| Certifications covered | All four: CCAO-F, CCDV-F, CCAR-F and CCAR-P, in one account, with a study guide, question bank, mocks and flashcards for each.Evidence“Study guides mapped to every domain, four full mock exams per certification, spaced-repetition flashcards, and a readiness score that tracks you per domain.” | One certification only: Claude Certified Architect Foundations, which the site abbreviates "CCAF" (and "CCA-F" in its homepage meta description). Anthropic's exam guide gives that certification the code CCAR-F, so the certification name matches but the abbreviation is the site's own — the string CCAR appears nowhere on the site. No other Claude certification is mentioned on any page.Evidence“CCAFPractice.com is a free, interactive study resource for people preparing for the Claude Certified Architect Foundations (CCAF) exam.” |
| Practice questions | 1,180 across the four banks — 300 CCAO-F, 265 CCDV-F, 300 CCAR-F, 315 CCAR-P. Roughly 300 per exam, which is mid-table here rather than the deepest bank.Evidence“1,180 Practice questions” | 180 questions — three exams of 60, spread 36 per domain across five domains. The site's own pages disagree with each other: the About page and the /practice counter both say 180, while the homepage meta description advertises over 200. 180 is what ships: the page source contains exactly 180 question cards with 180 distinct stems, split 60/60/60 across the three exams and 12 per domain within each exam.Evidence“It offers three full-length practice exams — 180 original questions in total — spread evenly across five core domains: agent architecture and orchestration, Claude Code configuration and workflows, prompt engineering and structured output, tool design and MCP integration, and context management and reliability.” |
| Study material | 119 study sections mapped to the published exam objectives, plus ten written hands-on labs and a 120-card rapid-recall deck per certification. Written material only — no video and no instructor.Evidence“119 Study sections” | No standalone study material. There is no study guide, lesson set, notes page, glossary or reading material anywhere on the site — /study, /guide, /guides, /notes, /glossary, /resources, /faq and /blog all return 404. The only explanatory prose is the written rationale attached to each of the 180 items, and it is revealed only after you submit a full 60-question exam.Evidence“Everything you need to prepare with confidence, and nothing you don’t.” |
| Full-length timed mocks | 20 full-length timed papers — five per certification, each at the real exam's item count and 120-minute clock (60 / 53 / 60 / 63 items). Four are scenario mock exams and the fifth is an objective mastery challenge at the same length. Note our own pages count these differently: /certifications says "four full mock exams per certification", which counts the mocks and not the mastery paper.Evidence“20 Timed mock exams” | Three full-length timed mock exams of 60 questions each: a 120-minute countdown (the official exam's limit is also 120 minutes), one question at a time, a clickable question index, an answered-count progress ring, and submit-then-score reporting. Each exam is a fixed form rather than generated — all three exam pages ship the same 180-item payload and render the 60 tagged for that exam, so the same items appear in the same order on every attempt. The 60 items are split evenly at 12 per domain (20% each) rather than to the published blueprint's 27/18/20/20/15, and every item is four-option single-select.Evidence“Three full-length practice exams, 60 questions each, evenly weighted across all five domains. Pick one to begin.” |
| Flashcards | Yes — a 120-card rapid-recall deck per certification, served through a spaced-repetition drill rather than as a static list.Evidence“Flashcard drills resurface each concept right before you'd forget it.” | Not published |
| Spaced repetition | Yes — an SM-2 scheduler, scheduling each card individually from a four-way rating, with lapses requeued inside the same session.Evidence“Study guides mapped to every domain, four full mock exams per certification, spaced-repetition flashcards, and a readiness score that tracks you per domain.” | Not published |
| Diagnostics | Objective-level mastery tracking with weak-domain routing: a missed question feeds a targeted drill by objective, by domain, or from your own misses, ordered confidently-wrong first.Evidence“Study guides mapped to every domain, four full mock exams per certification, spaced-repetition flashcards, and a readiness score that tracks you per domain.” | Partial. Submitting a 60-question exam produces a scored report: a percentage score, a count out of 60, a pass/fail verdict against the site's 75% benchmark, a written rationale for every item, and five per-domain rows each scored out of 12. There is no standalone diagnostic, placement or short-form assessment, no route from a weak domain into targeted practice, and no results history — the report is discarded when the page reloads.Evidence“Each exam runs one question at a time with a two-hour timer, a question index, and a scored report at the end that includes a per-domain breakdown and a written rationale for every item, so you can see not just what you missed but why.” |
| Readiness / adaptive path | A per-certification readiness score. Performance is 60% and preparation 40%, but an evidence gate caps the total: if your mock scores sit below the pass mark, preparation cannot lift you past "almost ready" however much you read. Only the first sitting of each distinct paper counts, drills and self-rated confidence are excluded, and a study section is only marked complete when you answer its checkpoint questions correctly — there is no "mark as complete" button.Evidence“Our readiness engine calculates a precise, real-time score based on your study history and mock test performance.” | No adaptive engine and no readiness model. The only readiness signal is a fixed 75% (45 of 60) benchmark applied to a completed exam, hard-coded in the exam page's script, and the site labels that benchmark an unofficial study target rather than a passing score. Item selection, order and difficulty never change between attempts, and nothing carries forward from one attempt to inform the next.Evidence“The practice benchmark is set at 75% — 45 of 60 questions correct. This is an unofficial study target meant to help you gauge readiness, not an official passing score.” |
| Free tier | Everything is free during open beta — all four certifications, every study section, every mock and every drill. An account is required.Evidence“Right now, Cred Farmer is completely free while we are in open beta.” | Free and complete, with nothing gated: no paid tier, no trial limit, no metered cap and no account. All 180 questions and every rationale are served in the raw HTML to an anonymous request with no cookies, and /pricing and /signup both return 404. The site does run an unlinked contact form at /contact that asks for a name and email address, but it gates no content.Evidence“Use our free CCA-F practice exam to test your knowledge. Over 200+ questions and 3 different exams available for FREE” |
| Price | $0 while in open beta. No paid tier is published, and no pricing is announced for after the beta.Evidence“Free while in open beta.” | Free. No price, plan, currency figure or checkout appears anywhere on the site and /pricing returns 404; the homepage states the site is free to use, and there is no paid product to price.Evidence“Free to use” |
| Account required | Yes for study, practice and mocks — a free account via Google or GitHub sign-in. The blog, the certification guides and this comparison are open with no account.Evidence“To maximize security, we only use OAuth (Google and GitHub).” | No. There is no signup or login of any kind: the nav on every page is Home / Practice Exam / About with no account UI in the header or footer, /signup returns 404, and all 180 questions plus every rationale are served to an anonymous, cookie-less request. (/login redirects to an operator admin area that returns 403 — that is a blocked back office, not a user account system.)Evidence“Home Practice Exam About” |
| Team support | Not published | Not published |
| States independence from Anthropic | Yes — stated in the footer of every page and repeated on the certification pages.Evidence“Not affiliated with, or endorsed by, Anthropic or Pearson VUE.” | Yes, on every page. The same disclaimer appears in the sitewide footer and again as a dedicated Disclaimer section on the About page: it identifies the author as a candidate rather than a vendor, disclaims affiliation, endorsement and sponsorship, declares the questions original and unofficial, and acknowledges Anthropic's trademark. The footer repeats a short form of it beside the copyright line.Evidence“This site is an independent study resource created by a CCAF candidate. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Anthropic. All practice questions are original and unofficial. Claude® is a trademark of Anthropic, PBC.” |
Which to choose
Choose CCAFPractice.com if…
- You want to be answering questions in the next minute without creating an account. Cred Farmer is free but requires a signup; this site requires nothing at all, and every question and rationale is in the page source.
- You will not or cannot sign in with Google or GitHub — a locked-down work machine, an OAuth-blocking network, or simple unwillingness to attach an account to a study site. This is a complete practice product that never asks who you are.
- You are sitting CCAR-F specifically and have already worked through another bank. A second, independently written set of 180 items on the same five domains is worth having, and this one costs nothing to try.
- You want the exam-day experience on its own: sit down, start a 60-question paper, watch the real 120-minute clock run, get a scored report. There is no onboarding, study plan, readiness score or dashboard to work through first.
- You need something you can send a colleague as a link that opens straight into the exam, with no login step and no invitation to manage.
Choose Cred Farmer if…
- You expect to sit more than one Claude certification and would rather not rebuild your study setup for each.
- You have booked an exam and want an honest read on whether you would pass, from a score that will not flatter you for reading more.
- You want spaced repetition and objective-level weak-area routing without paying for them.
- You want the full preparation loop — study, timed mocks, retention and diagnosis — in one place rather than assembled from three free sites.
What CCAFPractice.com does not offer
- Covers one certification only — there is nothing for CCAO-F, CCDV-F or CCAR-P.
- Nothing persists. There are no accounts and no saved progress: the only browser storage is a theme key, and the Retake button reloads the page, discarding every answer, the score and the domain breakdown. There is no attempt history, no score trend and no way to return to the items you missed.
- No study material and no review tooling: no guides, lessons, notes, glossary, flashcards, spaced repetition or missed-question queue. The whole product is three exams.
- Each exam is a fixed form — the same 60 items in the same order on every attempt, with no shuffling, no randomisation and no adaptivity.
- Items are weighted evenly at 12 per domain (20% each) rather than to the published blueprint's 27/18/20/20/15, so the practice mix does not match the paper it simulates.
- All 180 items are four-option single-select. There are no multiple-response items and no shared-scenario groupings, both of which the official exam format uses.
- Feedback arrives only in bulk: nothing is revealed as you answer, so the correct answer and rationale for item 1 wait until all 60 are submitted.
- No team, cohort, classroom or bulk-purchase features, and no accounts for them to attach to.
Observable gaps in what the site publishes, not judgements about quality. We have run no blind review of anyone's questions, including our own, so nothing here compares how good the content is — only what each platform offers.
Sources
- https://www.ccafpractice.com/about — About page — the certification targeted and its CCAF abbreviation, the 180-question total and five-domain split, the per-domain scored report and per-item rationales, the 75% unofficial benchmark, and the full independence disclaimer.
- https://www.ccafpractice.com/practice — Practice hub — three full-length 60-question exams evenly weighted across five domains, the 3 Exams / 180 Questions / 5 Domains counters, and the submit-then-score description of how feedback is delivered.
- https://www.ccafpractice.com/ — Homepage — the free-to-use claim, the "Over 200+ questions" meta description, the instant-feedback and progress-tracking feature cards, and the three-item nav with no account links.
- https://www.ccafpractice.com/practice/exam-1 — A live exam — 60 items delivered one at a time, the 120-minute countdown, the question index and answered ring, the hard-coded 45-of-60 pass threshold, and the grading routine that reveals answers and rationales only on submit.
- https://www.ccafpractice.com/contact — Contact page — an unlinked Contact Us form collecting name, email and message, with a captcha and a 24-hour response line; the only place on the site that asks for an email address.
All read on 3 September 2026. Found something wrong? Email hello@credfarmer.com and it will be corrected.
Common questions
Is CCAFPractice.com better than Cred Farmer?
Cred Farmer scores higher under every reader profile published here, but CCAFPractice.com still wins on specific criteria listed below. Under the balanced weighting, CCAFPractice.com scores 36 and Cred Farmer scores 82 out of 100. The weightings are published and adjustable, so the honest answer depends on which exam you are sitting and what you can spend.
Is this comparison independent?
No. Cred Farmer publishes it and is one of the two platforms in it. That is why the rubric is published, every figure links to CCAFPractice.com's own pages with the date it was checked, and the verdict above is computed from those published weightings rather than written by us.
Is CCAFPractice.com an official Anthropic product?
No. Neither is Cred Farmer. Anthropic publishes the exam guides and Pearson VUE delivers the exams; every platform in this comparison is independent of both.
How current are these figures?
Everything here was read on CCAFPractice.com's own site on 3 September 2026. Prices, question counts and free tiers change without notice — follow the source links before you rely on a figure, and email hello@credfarmer.com if you find one out of date.
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