CCAR-F reports on a scaled range of 100–1000 with a cut at 720, and its questions are distributed across 5 domains by published weight rather than evenly. Those weights are the single most useful thing in the exam guide: they tell you where the marks are, and they rarely match where candidates spend their time.

Agentic Architecture & Orchestration is the heaviest at 27.0% — roughly 16 of the 60 questions. Weakness there costs more than weakness anywhere else, which is exactly what a flat percentage score hides and what a blueprint-weighted estimate surfaces.

Where to start

Three objectives carry the most weight on CCAR-F. Between them they are worth roughly 6 of the 60 questions:

Which is not the same list as the objectives that feel hardest, and that gap is where study time usually goes missing. A week spent on the topic that worries you most is a week spent on 3% of the exam at best, and often on far less.

How we practice it

Our CCAR-F bank holds 946 original items across 52 objectives, each with an explanation and a note on every option — why the right answer is right, and why each distractor fails. Items are written against the published objectives. None is recalled or reproduced from a live exam.

A drill allocates questions by the published domain weights, multiplied by how far your measured mastery sits below standard. So a domain worth 27% of the exam that you are weak in dominates your next sitting, while one you have already mastered drops back to an exposure floor that keeps its estimate current.

What a question looks like

Taken from the free CCAR-F set, not written for this page — the correct answer, why it is correct, and a note on why each other option fails. Scenarios, not recall: nothing here is answerable from a definition.

CCAR-F Evaluate subagent delegation strategies — goal-oriented vs procedural

A team moves to goal-oriented delegation and finds that subagents reach conclusions the coordinator cannot audit. What restores visibility without giving up adaptability?

A Have the coordinator re-run each subagent's investigation for itself

Re-running each investigation in the coordinator discards the delegation entirely.

B Return to procedural instructions, so that the path is known in advance

Reverting to procedure gives up the adaptability the team moved to goal-oriented delegation to gain.

C Require each conclusion to come back with its evidence and its method

Correct. Goal-oriented delegation controls the destination rather than the route, so control is reasserted through the output contract.

D Reduce each subagent's tool access, so that fewer paths are possible

Narrowing tools limits where the subagent can look without making its reasoning visible.

Goal-oriented delegation controls the destination, not the route — so control is reasserted through the output contract. Requiring evidence and method with every conclusion keeps the coordinator able to audit the reasoning while the subagent stays free to adapt its path.

What you get for free

A 20-item diagnostic for CCAR-F, spread across objectives rather than taken off the top, so the sample reflects the shape of the exam. It produces a first readiness estimate and full explanations, whether or not you go on to buy.

The other Claude certification exams

All four report on the same 100–1000 scale with the same 720 cut, so a readiness estimate means the same thing whichever you are sitting. What differs is shape:

Domain	Share of exam	Approx. questions
Domain 1 — Agentic Architecture & Orchestration	27.0%	16
Domain 2 — Claude Code Configuration & Workflows	20.0%	12
Domain 3 — Prompt Engineering & Structured Output	20.0%	12
Domain 4 — Tool Design & MCP Integration	18.0%	11
Domain 5 — Context Management & Reliability	15.0%	9

Claude Certified Architect — Foundations

What the exam covers

Where to start

How we practice it

What a question looks like

What you get for free

The other Claude certification exams