The exam
The CCA-F exam at a glance
The Claude Certified Architect — Foundations exam is scenario-based and scored out of 1000. Here's the shape of it, plus how the five domains are weighted, so you can aim your practice where it counts.
60
Questions
120 min
Time limit
720 / 1000
Passing score
4 of 6 per sitting
Scenarios
Domains & weights
Every sitting samples across these five domains. The weight is roughly the share of questions you can expect from each.
D1Agentic Architecture & Orchestration27%D2Tool Design & MCP Integration18%D3Claude Code Configuration & Workflows20%D4Prompt Engineering & Structured Output20%D5Context Management & Reliability15%
The six scenarios
Questions are framed inside real-world scenarios. 4 of these 6 are drawn at random for each sitting.