Claude Certified Architect – Foundations practice questions

Prove you can design agentic systems: orchestration, tools and MCP, structured output, and reliability under real context limits.

40 free questions across 4 sets, each with the correct answer and the reasoning behind it. Questions are written to the same judgment-first style as the exam, not to test vocabulary recall.

Free question sets

• Set 1

  10 questions with answers and explanations.

  Read set 1

• Set 2

  10 questions with answers and explanations.

  Read set 2

• Set 3

  10 questions with answers and explanations.

  Read set 3

• Set 4

  10 questions with answers and explanations.

  Read set 4

What the Architect exam covers

• Domain 1: Agentic Architecture & Orchestration

  Loops, delegation, subagents, and knowing when not to use an agent.

• Domain 2: Tool Design & MCP Integration

  Tool surfaces, descriptions, error shapes, and MCP server boundaries.

• Domain 3: Claude Code Configuration & Workflows

  Project configuration, permissions, hooks, and repeatable dev workflows.

• Domain 4: Prompt Engineering & Structured Output

  Schemas, validation, and output contracts other systems can consume.

• Domain 5: Context Management & Reliability

  Compaction, retrieval, retries, and graceful degradation.