Claude Certified Architect – Foundations Questions and Answers
200 questions organized by topic with detailed explanations
Anthropic
CCA-F
200 questions
5 topics
Updated May 2026Agentic Architecture & Orchestration
52 questions10 easy28 medium14 hard~25% of exam
A hub-and-spoke system's "Policy Lookup" subagent consistently returns irrelevant policy sections, even though the corre...In a hub-and-spoke multi-agent architecture, what is the primary function of the coordinator agent?An engineer builds an agentic loop that exits when Claude's last message contains the phrase "Task complete." Why is thi...
Tool Design & MCP Integration
40 questions11 easy21 medium8 hard~20% of exam
A Claude agent has 18 tools defined. The team reports increasing routing errors where Claude calls the wrong tool, despi...A Claude agent in a pipeline performs a final synthesis step where it must reason about previously extracted data withou...A team is configuring a GitHub MCP server in their project's `.mcp.json` file and needs to include a personal access tok...
Claude Code Configuration & Workflows
40 questions9 easy23 medium8 hard~20% of exam
Prompt Engineering & Structured Output
38 questions8 easy21 medium9 hard~20% of exam
A `tool_use` JSON schema requires an `age` field as an integer. Can Claude return semantically implausible values like `...A developer instructs Claude in the system prompt to "always return valid JSON with the following fields." At a volume o...An enterprise compliance team needs to review 50,000 legal document summaries every night and have results ready by 8 AM...
Context Management & Reliability
30 questions5 easy16 medium9 hard~15% of exam
What is the "lost-in-the-middle" phenomenon in large language models?A single Claude agent accumulates extensive context over a long research task, and response quality degrades as the cont...A Claude-based system processes financial reports in nightly batches. During a server restart at 3 AM, processing stops ...
All Questions
| # | Question | Topic | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A `tool_use` JSON schema requires an `age` field as an integer. Can Claude return semantically impla... | Prompt Engineering & Structured Output | medium |
| 2 | A hub-and-spoke system's "Policy Lookup" subagent consistently returns irrelevant policy sections, e... | Agentic Architecture & Orchestration | hard |
| 3 | A Claude agent has 18 tools defined. The team reports increasing routing errors where Claude calls t... | Tool Design & MCP Integration | hard |
| 4 | In Claude Code, what does the `/compact` command do? | Claude Code Configuration & Workflows | medium |
| 5 | A Claude agent in a pipeline performs a final synthesis step where it must reason about previously e... | Tool Design & MCP Integration | medium |
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