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Free CCAR-F practice questions: Claude Certified Architect Foundations
20 questions written for the Claude Certified Architect - Foundations blueprint, sat at the official pace of two minutes an item. No sign-up, nothing saved, nothing sent anywhere.
Want more? The post CCAR-F wrong answers explained works 10 more items option by option, and the CCAR-F study guide shows 6 more with their keys: 36 distinct items with this paper, none behind an account.
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Sit it timed insteadTraces from the agentic loop you built on the Claude API show the agent repeating one tool call with identical arguments and ignoring the result. Each iteration sends the original request plus a note that the tool ran, without its output. What should you change in the loop?
Select the best answer.
Your research coordinator assigns every aspect a request names to its search, analysis and synthesis subagents, but about a third of reports still miss one. The coordinator passes the synthesis output straight to the user without checking it. Which change best closes the gaps?
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You define two subagents with AgentDefinition for a Claude Agent SDK coordinator whose allowedTools list holds only your MCP tools and Read. In production the coordinator never spawns either one and does all the work itself. What is the most likely fix?
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Your support agent issues goodwill credits through a credit_account tool, and policy says credits over $200 need human approval. The cap is stated in the system prompt, yet a few larger credits still go through each month. Which change enforces the cap while credits under $200 stay automatic?
Select the best answer.
You spent two days in a Claude Code session mapping a billing service's modules and call paths, and no code has changed since. You want to explore two refactoring approaches, each starting from that full analysis and neither influenced by the other. What should you do?
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Your agent uses one MCP tool, analyze_document, to extract specifications, summarize care guides and check claims; it takes a file and a free-text instruction and returns whatever text comes back. Code that expects specification fields often fails because the output shape varies. What should you do?
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Your scheduling agent's MCP booking tool returns "Operation failed" both for timeouts, which clear within seconds, and for calendars its account cannot access. The agent tells patients to call back after a timeout and retries six times on an access failure. Which two changes to the tool's error responses should you make? (Select two.)
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Of your agent's four tools for planning applications, extract_metadata must run first, because the other three need the application_id it returns and their inputs cannot change. On about one request in ten the model skips it and the later calls fail. What is the most reliable fix?
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Your team added an MCP server to the project's .mcp.json that searches code in all 40 repositories. Claude Code still runs Grep on the local checkout to find a function's callers and misses those in other repositories, and the MCP tool's description reads only "Searches code." What should you change first?
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Your repository holds six packages and one 900-line root CLAUDE.md that mixes every package's standards. Sessions load thousands of tokens of irrelevant guidance, and each package lead wants to own their standards in a separate file. Which approach best fits?
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Your team shares a project skill, /release-notes, and one engineer wants a terse, bullet-only version for an internal channel. She edited the shared SKILL.md, and the next day everyone's customer notes came out as bullets. How should she keep her format without affecting anyone else?
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You must replace a deprecated date library used in 64 files. Two candidate replacements handle time zones differently, and on a past migration a hidden dependency forced the team to discard days of edits. How should you run the task in Claude Code?
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Reviewers reject many tests that a CI job writes by running Claude Code with -p: they cover trivial getters or build fixtures by hand that the shared test harness already provides. The prompt holds only the diff and "write thorough tests." Which change best fits?
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You extract claim details from adjuster reports with tool_use and a JSON schema that marks every field required. Some reports never state a policy end date, yet the extraction always returns a plausible one, and billing cannot accept an invented date. What should you change while keeping schema enforcement?
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Your extraction pipeline retries with validation feedback up to three times, which fixes date-format failures on the second try. Most first-pass failures, though, are a missing tax ID that appears only in a separate customs form never sent with the request, and they still fail on the third try. What should you change?
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Your nightly Message Batches job audits 30,000 documents. About 2 percent of requests fail because their documents exceed the context limit, and you resubmit the whole batch, which doubles that night's cost. What should you do instead, keeping the batch discount?
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Developers dismiss most comment-accuracy findings from your automated pull request review but few of its security findings, and many now skip the review altogether. Telling the review to report only high-confidence findings changed nothing. What should you do first?
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Your support agent summarizes long conversations after turn 20, and in some sessions it later refunds a different amount than it quoted, such as 84.50 quoted and 85.00 refunded. Each order lookup adds over 40 fields, and the context budget cannot grow. Which change best protects the quoted amounts?
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Your extraction system reaches 97 percent field accuracy overall on a validation set of referral letters, discharge summaries and lab reports. A manager wants to skip human review for any extraction with confidence above 0.9. What should you require before any extraction skips review?
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Your research system's brief says a sector grew 4.1 percent, but the analysis subagent had read 4.1 percent in a 2024 annual report and 6.3 percent in a 2025 update, and synthesis kept one figure with no source or date. Disagreements between sources must stay visible. Which change best fits?
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No. Every item here was written for this page from the official CCAR-F Exam Guide and its published domains and objectives. Nothing is recalled from a sitting, nothing is drawn from another provider, and Cred Farmer is not affiliated with Anthropic or Pearson VUE. The items are short scenarios, about the length of the guide's sample questions. Of the 20, 19 are single-answer with four options and 1 asks you to select two of five, saying so in the stem. The questions themselves are ours, and their difficulty is not calibrated against the exam.
How is the mock scored?
You get the raw count of correct answers out of the items you sat, and the same count for each domain beside that domain's official weight. A select-two item counts only when both picks match the key. The exam reports a scaled score with a 720 cut, and no practice percentage converts to it, so this page never shows a scaled score, a pass verdict or a percentile.
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No. Choose a start mode and the sitting runs in your browser tab. There is no sign-up, no email field and no cookie that follows you. An account only matters if you want the larger signed-in library, and the link for that sits at the bottom of the page rather than in your way.
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No catch. Everything on Cred Farmer is free, this page included: no card, no trial, no limit on how many times you sit it. An account costs nothing either; it adds the five timed forms, saved progress and a readiness score capped by your first sitting of each form. The one limit here is inventory: the no-account paper is one paper, so sit it a second time and you will remember some items, and that is when the signed-in forms become the next step.
How many questions are in the mock?
20 in the full sitting, allocated across the 5 official domains in proportion to their weights. The clock runs at the official pace of 60 items in 120 minutes, two minutes an item, so the full sitting gets 40 minutes. The quick sitting draws 20 of them evenly across the domains in 40 minutes, and the untimed review takes the whole paper without a clock.
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It stays in this tab. Nothing is sent to a server, nothing is stored on your device, and nothing you answer here feeds a readiness score or any aggregate. Close or refresh the page and the result is gone, which is also why it is worth reading the per-option reasons before you leave.
This page is 20 items. The account has 300.
Everything on Cred Farmer is free. An account adds the five timed forms, saved progress and a readiness score: CCAR-F has 5 forms aligned to the current blueprint, 60 items each, 300 in total, plus drills by objective, and your first sitting of each form sets the band the score can reach. No card, no trial clock.
Every item on this page was written for it from the official CCAR-F Exam Guide, not recalled from a sitting and not copied from anyone else's set. Material sold as recalled questions can cost you the credential: read why Claude certification exam dumps are a bad bet. Items were last checked against the guide on . The guide is published on Anthropic's CCAR-F certification page.
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