Anthropic CCAR-P - Claude Certified Architect - Professional Exam
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Total 125 questions
Question #11 (Topic: Exam A)
You are reviewing a peer’s draft system prompt that contains contradictory instructions: one section says to never speculate beyond the supplied source, and another says to confidently fill in any gaps.
Which response is most appropriate?
Which response is most appropriate?
A. Add a priority-ordering instruction that tells the model to evaluate all available instructions and apply the most contextually appropriate one on each request.
B. Increase the temperature setting so that output randomness masks the contradictions.
C. Resolve the contradiction by removing or rewording the gap-filling instruction so the prompt consistently constrains the model to source-supported content.
D. Keep both contradictory instructions in place and rely on the model to select which one to follow on each individual request, accepting inconsistent behavior as a result.
Answer: C
Question #12 (Topic: Exam A)
A document analysis service processes legal filings averaging 80,000 tokens each. Each filing is queried by attorneys an average of 14 times during a case. The current architecture sends the full filing on every query. The CFO has asked you to reduce per-query costs while preserving response quality. The security officer requires that filing contents not be stored outside Fabrikam’s tenancy.
Which optimization approach should you recommend?
Which optimization approach should you recommend?
A. Summarize each filing once at intake and run all subsequent queries against the summary.
B. Move the workload to a smaller Claude model to reduce the per-token cost paid.
C. Cache the filing as the prompt prefix for reuse across the 14 queries per case.
D. Index filings in a vector store and retrieve only the relevant passages per query.
Answer: C
Question #13 (Topic: Exam A)
HOTSPOT
You are classifying chunking strategies by the corpus type each is best suited to.
For each chunking strategy, select where in the request lifecycle each applies: “Long Structured Documents”, “Heterogeneous Short Records”, or “Code or Hierarchical Specs”.
You are classifying chunking strategies by the corpus type each is best suited to.
For each chunking strategy, select where in the request lifecycle each applies: “Long Structured Documents”, “Heterogeneous Short Records”, or “Code or Hierarchical Specs”.
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Question #14 (Topic: Exam A)
You are designing the prompt for a ticket-triage classifier with thirty well-defined categories and clear category descriptions in the prompt.
Which technique is most appropriate as the starting point?
Which technique is most appropriate as the starting point?
A. a prompt that demands the model invent new categories when the supplied ones do not fit
B. a chain-of-thought prompt for a routing decision that does not require multi-step reasoning
C. a zero-shot prompt that specifies the categories with their descriptions and the required output format
D. a prompt with no category descriptions, expecting the model to infer the category set
Answer: C
Question #15 (Topic: Exam A)
HOTSPOT
You are evaluating retrieval-strategy claims used by a peer team.
For each claim, select yes if the statement is generally accurate. Otherwise, select no.
You are evaluating retrieval-strategy claims used by a peer team.
For each claim, select yes if the statement is generally accurate. Otherwise, select no.
Answer: 
