CCAR-P · Professionalnew · exam live july 2026

Claude Certified Architect – Professional

Validates that you can architect production-grade Claude solutions: end-to-end system design, RAG pipelines, integration protocols, evaluation frameworks, governance, and stakeholder communication.

Who it's for: Mid/senior solution architects, AI/ML engineers, and technical leads with 3+ years in systems architecture.

63
Questions
120 min
Time limit
720 / 1000
Passing score
$175
Official fee

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We're building the full Architect Pro question bank against the official blueprint below. Leave your email and get notified at launch (plus early free access).

Official exam blueprint

Domains and weights from the official Anthropic exam guide (v1.0). Your score report shows percent-correct per domain.

Solution Design & Architecture

17%

Translating business problems into architectures, architectural patterns (workflow, agentic, augmented LLM), multi-agent design.

Claude Models, Prompting & Context Engineering

13%

Model tradeoffs, system prompts and guardrails, context window optimization, prompt reuse strategies.

Integration

19%

RAG pipeline design (chunking, indexing, retrieval), integration mechanisms (MCP, API/CLI, agent-to-agent), auth analysis.

Evaluation, Testing & Optimization

16%

Evaluation metrics and datasets, A/B testing, diagnosing system issues, cost-performance optimization.

Governance, Safety & Risk Management

14%

Guardrails, HITL validation, regulatory compliance (GDPR, HIPAA, FedRAMP), ethical AI.

Stakeholder Communication & Lifecycle Management

14%

Discovery, communicating architectural decisions, SLAs, documentation, lifecycle phases.

Developer Productivity & Operational Enablement

7%

Configuring Claude tooling for teams, AI-assisted workflows, operational issue resolution.

Try 3 official-style questions

Same style and cognitive level as the real exam. Click an answer to see the rationale.

sample 1Integration

A team exposes a customer-support agent that can read tickets, draft replies, issue refunds, and delete user accounts. Support staff only ever need to read tickets and draft replies. Applying least-privilege principles, which change best reduces risk?

sample 2Claude Models, Prompting & Context Engineering

An application sends the same 8,000-token system prompt and policy document on every request, followed by a short, varying user message. Latency and cost are both concerns. Which optimization most directly addresses both?

sample 3Evaluation, Testing & Optimization

A RAG system suddenly returns confident but incorrect answers after a document refresh, while latency and model version are unchanged. What is the most likely first place to investigate?

Meanwhile, the free Claude lessons cover a large part of this blueprint.