← All examsClaude Certified Architect — Foundations
The deeper foundation exam — architecture, design decisions and the trade-offs behind them. Covers Claude Code and developer tooling, prompt and context engineering, agentic patterns, integration, and governance foundations.
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About the CCAR-F exam
The deeper foundation exam — architecture, design decisions and the trade-offs behind them. Covers Claude Code and developer tooling, prompt and context engineering, agentic patterns, integration, and governance foundations.
Claude Certified Architect — Foundations is one of Anthropic’s four role-based Claude certifications. It is sat proctored through Pearson VUE and earns a Credly digital badge on passing. Registration goes through Anthropic Partner Academy.
- Exam code
- CCAR-F
- Level
- Foundation
- Format
- 60 questions · 120 min
- Passing score
- 720 / 1000 (72%)
- Exam fee
- $125 USD
- Delivery
- Pearson VUE (proctored)
- Validity
- ~12 months
- Practice questions
- 516 free
CCAR-F exam domains and weights
The official blueprint. Full mock exams on this page are sampled to these weights, so a practice paper carries the same mix of topics as the real one.
- Agentic Architecture & Orchestration27% of the exam · 150 practice questions
- Claude Code Configuration & Workflows20% of the exam · 98 practice questions
- Prompt Engineering & Structured Output20% of the exam · 98 practice questions
- Tool Design & MCP Integration18% of the exam · 69 practice questions
- Context Management & Reliability15% of the exam · 101 practice questions
What is in this CCAR-F practice bank
516 original practice questions across 5 exam domains, each with a written explanation of why the correct answer is right and why every distractor is wrong. Answer positions are randomised on each run, questions that give each other away are kept out of the same paper, and full sittings report on the 720 / 1000 scale with a per-domain breakdown. Free, no account, and your progress stays in your own browser.
These are community-written study items aligned to the published exam objectives — not real exam questions. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Anthropic.