Anthropic CCAR-P : Claude Certified Architect - Professional

A senior architect is preparing briefing materials on a new retrieval architecture. The executive sponsor has requested a summary of the architectural decision. Which framing is most appropriate for that audience?

• A. Technical alternatives evaluated, implementation implications, and component-level consequences.
• B. Business outcomes achieved, trade-offs accepted, and high-level risks acknowledged.
• C. Capabilities delivered, scope implications, and feature-level dependencies on the roadmap.
• D. Threat model, control mappings, residual-risk acceptance, and audit traceability.

You are supporting an engineer whose Claude Code session reports a permission denial when the engineer expected the action to be allowed.
Which resolution step is most appropriate?

• A. Tell the engineer to retry the denied action verbatim repeatedly until the denial stops appearing, without inspecting the active permission rules to determine whether the denial is intentional.
• B. Inspect the active permission rules across all scopes-managed, command-line, local, project, and user-to identify which rule is denying the action and confirm whether it should be amended or remain denied.
• C. Disable the permission system entirely across all scopes to remove the denial, eliminating all tool- pattern and deny-rule controls rather than identifying and amending the specific rule.
• D. Grant the engineer unrestricted Bash access to bypass the specific rule causing the denial, removing all tool-pattern constraints rather than amending only the rule in question.

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?

• A. Summarize each filing once at intake and run all subsequent queries against the summary.
• B. Cache the filing as the prompt prefix for reuse across the 14 queries per case.
• C. Move the workload to a smaller Claude model to reduce the per-token cost paid.
• D. Index filings in a vector store and retrieve only the relevant passages per query.

An architect is reviewing a Claude-based candidate-screening tool prior to deployment. A stakeholder asserts that because the model was not trained on company data, no bias evaluation is necessary.
Which two responses most accurately challenge this assertion? (Select two.)

• A. Bias evaluation is unnecessary when the model provider has published a responsible-use policy.
• B. Transparency obligations are satisfied by disclosing that an AI system is in use, without further evaluation.
• C. Fairness testing is required only when the training dataset is known to contain protected-class labels.
• D. The model may carry demographic biases from pretraining that manifest in screening outcomes regardless of fine-tuning.
• E. The system should be evaluated on outcome-disparity metrics across protected groups before deployment.

You are reviewing a peer's draft architecture decision record (ADR). The ADR states the decision and the technical detail but does not state the alternatives considered or the trade-offs accepted.
Which response is most appropriate?

• A. Ask the author to add the alternatives considered and the trade-offs accepted before publishing the ADR.
• B. Approve the ADR as written on the grounds that the decision itself is documented, accepting that reviewers and future maintainers will lack the context to evaluate or revisit it.
• C. Replace the ADR with a different decision unrelated to the one drafted.
• D. Delete the ADR entirely and rely on the engineering team's collective memory to reconstruct the decision context, alternatives, and trade-offs during future audits or onboarding.