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Pass the Claude Certified Architect Foundations Exam (CCAR-F)

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How these questions were made. I have never seen the CCAR-F exam. I can’t, because Anthropic restricts registration to employees of partner companies with 10 or more staff, and I don’t qualify. Every question here was written from Anthropic’s published exam blueprint, which is free and public, and each one cites the domain and weight it maps to. No exam recall. No dumps. Ever.

CCAR-F is the original Claude certification. It launched in March 2026 alongside the Claude Partner Network and was the only one available for four months, so almost every community write-up you will find is about this exam. It is scenario-based: you get a broken agentic system and four plausible fixes, and you pick the one a good architect would actually choose.

Practice questions are the fastest way to get ready. They show you how concepts get tested, surface your gaps, and make exam day feel familiar.

What is on the CCAR-F exam

Exam	CCAR-F: Claude Certified Architect: Foundations
Questions	60, multiple choice and multiple response
Time	120 minutes
Passing score	720 on a scaled range of 100 to 1,000
Price	$125 USD, 50% off for Select tier partners and above
Prerequisites	None
Validity	12 months, then a free open-book renewal
Who can register	Partner company employees only

Our question set is weighted to the official blueprint:

Domain	Weight	What it covers
Agentic Architecture & Orchestration	27%	Agentic loops, coordinator and subagent patterns, Agent SDK hooks, session state, resumption and forking.
Claude Code Configuration & Workflows	20%	CLAUDE.md hierarchy and scoping, custom skills, path-specific rules, plan mode, CI/CD integration.
Prompt Engineering & Structured Output	20%	Explicit criteria, few-shot, enforcing schemas through tool use, validation and retry loops, batch strategies.
Tool Design & MCP Integration	18%	Tool interfaces and descriptions, structured errors with isError, tool choice, MCP servers, built-in tools.
Context Management & Reliability	15%	Long-interaction context, escalation patterns, error propagation, large codebase exploration, human review.

Worth knowing. One domain trips people up more than any other. A candidate who scored 886 overall got only 50% on Prompt Engineering and Structured Output. It is 20% of the exam, and it tests structured output enforcement rather than conversational prompting.

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Free CCAR-F study guide & cheat sheet

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How to prepare

Read Anthropic’s official CCAR-F exam guide PDF first, since it carries the complete blueprint plus sample questions with answer rationales. Take a practice set above, then focus your studying on the domains where you missed questions. The free courses at academy.claude.com cover the Claude API, Claude Code, MCP and agent skills at no cost.

Not sure this is the right exam for you? Compare all four: Claude certification explained. Weighing the two architect exams? CCAR-F vs CCAR-P.

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