Claude Certified Architect – Professional
For senior architects who own production Claude systems: integration, evaluation, governance and the handoff to operations.
The real exam
- Questions
- 63
- Time
- 120 minutes
- Format
- Multiple choice and multiple response
- Scoring
- Scaled score of 720 on a 100–1,000 scale
- Exam fee
- US$175
- Practice pass mark
- 72%
Exam facts and domain weights come from Anthropic's CCAR-P exam guide, version 1.0 (July 2026). Always confirm on the official exam page before you book.
Practice
Practice exams
Fixed sets with no questions in common. Take one as a timed exam, or in review mode to see explanations after each question.
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Diagnostic set
6 questions, about 11 minutes. A short mix across every domain to find your weak spots.
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Practice exam 1
63 questions, about 120 minutes. Full length, in the real exam's domain mix
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Practice exam 2
63 questions, about 120 minutes. Full length, in the real exam's domain mix
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Practice exam 3
63 questions, about 120 minutes. Full length, in the real exam's domain mix
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Practice exam 4
63 questions, about 120 minutes. Full length, in the real exam's domain mix
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Practice exam 5
63 questions, about 120 minutes. Full length, in the real exam's domain mix
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Practice exam 6
63 questions, about 120 minutes. Full length, in the real exam's domain mix
Randomized test
Questions drawn from the whole bank in the real exam's domain proportions, in a new order each time.
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Full length
63 questions, about 120 minutes
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Short
20 questions, about 38 minutes
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Quick
10 questions, about 19 minutes
Flashcards
Exam tips
What people who passed say about CCAR-P. These are candidate reports, not official guidance, so check the official exam guide too.
- Judgment over tooling. Most items ask you to diagnose a problem, weigh trade-offs and justify a decision for a business. Prompt-writing is a small share.
- Narrow, don't just watch. When a design is risky, the strongest answer usually removes the capability or access, rather than only logging or gating it.
- Know how retrieval fails. Chunking, indexing and stale indexes come up when answers go wrong.
- Spot the regulation. Recognize when GDPR, HIPAA or FedRAMP applies and what it changes in a design review.
- Talk to stakeholders. Expect questions on scoping vague requests, explaining cost and latency, and documenting decisions.
- Cover every domain. The seven weights are fairly even, and some items ask you to pick more than one answer. They tell you how many.
Sources: Level Up Coding, Anthropic's CCAR-P exam guide
Section drills
Practice every question in one domain, in review mode. Weights show how much each domain counts on the real exam.
| Domain | Weight | Questions | Your accuracy | Drill |
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| D1 Solution Design & Architecture | 17% | 67 | Not tried | Drill |
| D2 Claude Models, Prompting & Context Engineering | 13% | 49 | Not tried | Drill |
| D3 Integration | 19% | 73 | Not tried | Drill |
| D4 Evaluation, Testing & Optimization | 16% | 61 | Not tried | Drill |
| D5 Governance, Safety & Risk Management | 14% | 55 | Not tried | Drill |
| D6 Stakeholder Communication & Lifecycle Management | 14% | 55 | Not tried | Drill |
| D7 Developer Productivity & Operational Enablement | 7% | 24 | Not tried | Drill |
About this exam
Claude Certified Architect – Professional is Anthropic's senior architect credential, released in July 2026. It covers the full life of a Claude system, from discovery and design through integration, evaluation, governance and operations.
Some questions ask you to pick more than one answer and say how many to choose. The domain weights are fairly flat, so plan to cover all seven rather than focusing on one or two.
The exam guide recommends three or more years of systems architecture experience and six or more months running Claude, or a similar LLM system, in production. Foundations isn't a prerequisite. Registration has been limited to Claude Partner Network employees.