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| 1 | You are identifying signals that a deployment should re-enter design rather than continue iterating in place. Which signal most directly indicates the need for a new design cycle? | – | |
| 2 | A security team is evaluating two proposed controls. Control A adds an outbound tool allow-list with destination restrictions and per-call review. Control B scores responses against a stable adversarial evaluation set after each model-version change. Which two risk categories are correctly matched to these controls? (Select two.) | – | |
| 3 | A revenue projection assistant has missed its monthly cost target by 38 percent. Profiling shows three contributors: a 6,000-token policy preamble repeated on every call (45 percent of cost), retrieval of historical sales chunks averaging 3,000 tokens per call (30 percent), and inference on a flagship-tier model (25 percent). Stakeholders require that projection accuracy remain unchanged. Which two optimizations should you sequence first to reduce cost without affecting accuracy? (Select two.) Each correct answer presents part of the solution. | – | |
| 4 | You are compiling team-setup practices for a Claude Code rollout across an engineering organization. Which two practices belong on the list? (Select two.) Each correct answer presents a complete solution. | – | |
| 5 | You are integrating AI-assisted tooling into the team's documentation workflow. The team wants generated documentation that stays grounded in the actual code. Which integration approach best fits this requirement? | – | |
| 6 | You are defining transparency practices for a customer-facing assistant whose responses are materially shaped by AI. Which transparency practice most directly supports responsible deployment? | – | |
| 7 | You are rolling out monitoring for a Claude-based deployment and must complete the specification steps before instrumenting the deployment. Which two steps must be completed BEFORE instrumenting the deployment to emit metrics and traces? (Select two.) Each correct answer presents part of the solution. | – | |
| 8 | You are selecting a pattern for a compliance Q&A assistant that must answer policy questions with citations to the authoritative internal source set. Latency, cost, and audit predictability are prioritized. Which pattern is the best fit? | – | |
| 9 | You are presenting an architectural decision to a mixed audience that includes an executive sponsor and the engineering leads who will implement the decision. Which presentation strategy best serves both audiences? | – | |
| 10 | A Claude Architect is reviewing a post-deployment performance report for an AI-assisted legal-document summarization system. The report includes these observations: • Average summarization time decreased from 47 minutes to 6 minutes per document. • Associates spend less time on summaries, but overall billable output has not measurably changed. • Infrastructure costs increased by 22% because redundant retry logic generated additional API calls. • Some summaries require attorney correction, adding an average of 8 minutes of review per document. Which analysis correctly attributes each observation to the appropriate business-value pillar? | – | |
| 11 | You are designing a human-in-the-loop validation workflow for a new Claude-based deployment and must complete the design steps before piloting the workflow. Which two steps must be completed BEFORE piloting the workflow with a representative subset of traffic? (Select two.) Each correct answer presents part of the solution. | – | |
| 12 | You are evaluating model-selection claims used by a peer team. For each statement, select yes if the statement is generally true. Otherwise, select no. | – | |
| 13 | The engineering lead at Trenova Systems, Inc. is evaluating two proposals for improving developer workflows using Claude-assisted tooling. Proposal A adds Claude Code to the IDE for inline code generation and review. Proposal B routes all code-generation requests through a shared Slack bot without IDE integration. Which two observations most accurately evaluate these proposals against workflow-improvement objectives? (Select two.) | – | |
| 14 | You are investigating an MCP server that fails on first launch but succeeds on subsequent runs. System permission dialogs appeared during the first launch. Which response is most appropriate? | – | |
| 15 | A solutions architect is analyzing stakeholder feedback collected after the first quarter of a Claude-powered procurement automation deployment. The feedback includes four statements: (1) "Our procurement team is processing 3x more purchase orders per analyst per day." (2) "We have eliminated the manual data entry role entirely and redeployed those staff to vendor relationship management." (3) "The API integration costs are running 40% over the projected per-transaction budget." (4) "Response latency during end-of-month batch runs is averaging 11 seconds, against our committed 5-second SLA." Which of the following correctly identifies the primary business value pillar each stakeholder statement represents? | – | |
| 16 | You are compiling a diagnostic toolkit for Claude Code operational issues. Which two diagnostic actions belong in the toolkit? (Select two.) Each correct answer presents a complete solution. | – | |
| 17 | The compliance team has authored a regulatory disclosure procedure that must be applied identically across customer service, sales, and onboarding workflows. The procedure changes when regulators issue updates, currently four to six times per year. You are designing how the procedure will be packaged for use by Claude across all three workflows. Which two design decisions should you include? (Select two.) Each correct answer presents part of the solution. | – | |
| 18 | You are operating an interactive assistant whose dominant performance constraint is per-turn latency. Quality on routine turns is already acceptable. Which configuration adjustment most directly improves latency without disproportionately damaging quality? | – | |
| 19 | You are reviewing a peer's draft system prompt that contains contradictory instructions: one section says never to speculate beyond the supplied source, while another says to confidently fill in any gaps. Which response is most appropriate? | – | |
| 20 | You are classifying chunking strategies by the corpus type each is best suited to. For each chunking strategy, select the appropriate corpus type: "Long Structured Documents," "Heterogeneous Short Records," or "Code or Hierarchical Specifications." | – | |
| 21 | You are documenting an architectural decision to support future audit and onboarding. Which artifact is the strongest fit? | – | |
| 22 | You are evaluating an evaluation set used to score a Claude-based hiring-support tool. The set is drawn from one geographic region and one tenure band. Which response is most appropriate? | – | |
| 23 | You are integrating Claude Code into a workflow that runs against a production database. Which guardrail design most directly preserves safety on data-modifying operations? | – | |
| 24 | You are responding to a stakeholder request that adds significant scope to a deployment already in flight. Which response best aligns expectations while respecting the stakeholder's underlying need? | – | |
| 25 | You are a solution architect designing a Claude-based assistant with access to 60 internal tools across multiple business domains. Loading every tool definition on every request increases token usage and time to first response. Which design pattern best addresses this issue without sacrificing capability breadth? | – | |
| 26 | A Claude architect needs to ensure that a security-hardening flag cannot be disabled by any individual engineer after it is set. Which configuration scope correctly enforces this requirement? | – | |
| 27 | You are auditing a procurement-assistant agent whose defined responsibility is to draft purchase requests for review. For each tool currently configured on the agent, select yes if the tool should remain after a least-privilege audit. Otherwise, select no if it should be removed. | – | |
| 28 | You are listing characteristics of robust guardrail design for an enterprise deployment. Which two characteristics belong on the list? (Select two.) Each correct answer presents a complete solution. | – | |
| 29 | You are sequencing decomposed components in an invoice-processing pipeline. For each of the decomposed components, select the execution layer it belongs to: "Pre-Processing," "Model Stage," or "Post-Processing." | – | |
| 30 | A technical team is cataloguing risks specific to Claude's use in a document-grounded Q&A system. Which two items represent failure modes intrinsic to LLM-based systems rather than generic software defects? (Select two.) | – | |
| 31 | You are reviewing a customer-support agent's configuration. Each candidate tool falls into one of four categories: (1) required to complete defined tasks, (2) frequently used and reduces hand-offs, (3) occasionally useful for unrelated work, (4) speculative future utility. Which categories should typically remain in the agent configuration? | – | |
| 32 | You are defining escalation criteria for ambiguous cases in an automated workflow. Which set of criteria best supports consistent escalation? | – | |
| 33 | 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? | – | |
| 34 | You are configuring tool permissions for a Claude-based assistant. The assistant's defined responsibilities require read access to a knowledge base and write access to a draft queue, and nothing else. Which scoping design best applies least privilege? | – | |
| 35 | A technical team is debating whether to implement a new capability for generating regulatory filings from internal data as a Claude Skill or as an MCP server. The capability requires a fixed authoring procedure with embedded examples, does not need to call live external systems, and must be portable across three Claude deployments: claude.ai, an internal API integration, and Claude Code. Which factor most strongly favors implementing the capability as a Skill? | – | |
| 36 | You are building an ethics-review checklist for deployments supported by artificial intelligence. Which two checks belong on the list? (Select two.) Each correct answer presents a complete solution. | – | |
| 37 | You are comparing patterns for a batch document-classification job that follows fixed steps: extract metadata, classify, summarize, and persist. Which pattern is the best fit and why? | – | |
| 38 | You are a platform architect designing an internal Claude-based assistant that serves both finance analysts and external auditors. Each population must access only documents permitted by its role. Where should role-based access control be enforced in the pipeline? | – | |
| 39 | You are selecting a model for a new production workload and must complete the upstream steps before testing candidate models empirically. Which two steps must be completed BEFORE running a representative sample on a candidate model? (Select two.) Each correct answer presents part of the solution. | – | |
| 40 | You are an architect supporting the iteration phase of a deployed Claude-based system. Which activity most directly fits this phase? | – | |
| 41 | An architect is reviewing a set of architecture documentation packages before handing off a Claude-based pipeline to an implementation team. Which two characteristics indicate that a documentation package is sufficient to support implementation without ongoing architect involvement? (Select two.) | – | |
| 42 | You are a solution architect evaluating candidate use cases for a Claude-based program. For each scenario, select Yes if Claude is appropriate as the primary solution at the architectural level. Otherwise, select No. | – | |
| 43 | You are compiling factors that should drive the choice between Model Context Protocol (MCP), direct API integration, and agent-to-agent handoff. Which two factors belong on the list? (Select two.) Each correct answer presents a complete solution. | – | |
| 44 | A Claude architect observes that after a recent model-version upgrade, grounded responses began including claims not supported by the retrieved source documents. Which mitigation is most directly targeted at this failure mode? | – | |
| 45 | You are compiling guardrail tactics for a customer-facing assistant. Which two tactics belong on the guardrail list? Each correct answer presents a complete solution. | – | |
| 46 | You are listing characteristics of strong architectural-decision communication. Which two characteristics belong on the list? (Select two.) Each correct answer presents a complete solution. | – | |
| 47 | A healthcare organization is evaluating two Claude-powered AI architectures for a clinical documentation assistant. Architecture X produces higher output quality scores but costs $0.18 per documentation session and averages 4.2 seconds per response. Architecture Y scores slightly lower on quality metrics but costs $0.09 per session and averages 2.1 seconds per response. The stated SLA requires responses under 3 seconds, and the annual volume is projected at 2 million documentation sessions. Which evaluation approach correctly applies business value pillar analysis to this decision? | – | |
| 48 | You are assessing data-exfiltration risk in a Claude-based assistant that has tools for both internal-document retrieval and outbound HTTP calls. Which scenario most directly indicates a data-exfiltration risk? | – | |
| 49 | A loan pre-qualification assistant shows 94 percent approval recommendations that match the human underwriter decision. The fairness team has reviewed approval rate parity across protected groups and reported no significant difference. A board member has asked whether this evidence is sufficient to declare the assistant fair. Which two Discernment-competency findings should you report? (Select two.) Each correct answer presents part of the solution. | – | |
| 50 | A pilot AI assistant for procurement specialists shows 89 percent first-response acceptance, but follow-up surveys reveal that specialists frequently override the assistant's vendor recommendations after considering criteria the assistant did not evaluate. The pilot owner wants to ship the assistant unchanged because of the strong acceptance rate. Which two Discernment-competency observations should you raise BEFORE approving the launch? (Select two.) | – | |
| 51 | A customer support team has proposed delegating customer refund decisions to a Claude-driven workflow with no human review for refunds under 50 USD. The team's reasoning is that small refunds are low-risk and human review would erase the efficiency gain. Which Delegation-competency principle should guide your response? | – | |
| 52 | A platform team operates a self-hosted multi-agent system on Kubernetes that orchestrates seven specialized agents for invoice processing. The team spends approximately 40 percent of engineering capacity on infrastructure maintenance, message bus reliability, and agent state recovery. The CFO has asked you to evaluate moving to managed agent infrastructure to reclaim engineering capacity. The security officer requires that all customer financial data remain within an approved network boundary. Which factor should most heavily influence your recommendation? | – | |
| 53 | You are supporting an engineer whose newly added MCP server does not appear in their Claude Code session. Which diagnostic step should be tried first? | – | |
| 54 | You are choosing the level of detail for an implementation guide. The audience is a delivery team that will build the deployment. Which guidance composition best serves them? | – | |
| 55 | You are responding to an adversarial input pattern in which users include text claiming admin authority and instructing the model to bypass safety restrictions. Which combination of controls most effectively mitigates this attack pattern? | – | |
| 56 | You are building an evaluation pipeline for a Claude-based deployment and must complete the specification steps before running the deployment against the dataset. Which two steps must be completed BEFORE running the deployment against the evaluation dataset? (Select two.) Each correct answer presents part of the solution. | – | |
| 57 | You are defining when to introduce a project subagent versus relying on Claude Code's general capabilities. Which scenario most directly justifies a dedicated subagent? | – | |
| 58 | A Claude architect is designing a HIPAA-compliant pipeline that processes patient records. Which two design decisions directly support HIPAA compliance requirements? (Select two.) | – | |
| 59 | You are supporting a team whose Claude Code sessions consistently load 60 or more MCP tools from many servers, exhausting context budget before the session begins. Which adjustment most directly addresses this issue without removing capability? | – | |
| 60 | A business sponsor has requested an AI solution to "improve customer experience." The sponsor cannot articulate which customer journey is failing, which metric reflects the failure, or which decisions the AI should support. The sponsor is asking you to begin design work next week. Which delegation-competency action should you take first? | – | |
| 61 | A Claude architect at a health services organization is defining evaluation metrics for a clinical-summary pipeline. The pipeline must remain within a per-query cost ceiling and must never surface patient data to unauthorized roles. Which two metrics directly address these requirements? (Select two.) | – | |
| 62 | A Claude architect is auditing configuration scope assignments. Which two statements correctly identify an appropriate use of user-scope configuration versus other scopes? (Select two.) | – | |
| 63 | A Claude architect is implementing safety controls for a customer-facing advice assistant that must never provide regulated investment recommendations. Which two guardrail implementations most directly enforce this constraint? (Select two.) | – | |
| 64 | A Claude architect is leading the discovery phase for a new AI-powered customer service solution. Which two activities are characteristic of structured discovery and requirement gathering for a Claude-based deployment? (Select two.) | – | |
| 65 | A Claude-based research assistant begins producing responses that confidently contradict its retrieved source documents despite no change to the retrieval pipeline. Which two diagnostic actions most directly identify the root cause of this behavior? (Select two.) | – | |
| 66 | 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? | – | |
| 67 | A managed agent deployment for claims triage has grown from 6 tools to 34 tools over 18 months as product teams added capabilities. Triage accuracy has declined from 91 percent to 78 percent, and average tool-selection latency has increased by 2.3 seconds. A junior engineer has proposed adding a tool-router agent in front of the current agent to filter the tool list per request. Which two findings should you present to justify capability decomposition before adding the router? (Select two.) Each correct answer presents part of the solution. | – | |
| 68 | A research summarization assistant has been deployed for six months. A user has flagged that a generated summary contained a fabricated citation. The product team has asked whether the incident requires architectural action or whether it is an isolated case. Which two Diligence-competency actions should you take? (Select two.) Each correct answer presents part of the solution. | – | |
| 69 | A security audit uncovers two issues: (1) all end users share a single API key, and (2) tool calls are executed without logging the initiating user. Which two mitigations directly address these specific findings? (Select two.) | – | |
| 70 | A senior architect is managing stakeholder expectations for a Claude-based reporting assistant midway through development. Stakeholders have escalating concerns about response latency. Which two actions most directly address stakeholder expectation alignment in this situation? (Select two.) | – | |
| 71 | A team manager wants all engineers working on the same repository to share identical MCP server definitions without manual synchronization. Which configuration approach satisfies this requirement? | – | |
| 72 | After a prompt-template update, several previously passing test cases now produce unexpected outputs. Which test type is specifically designed to detect this category of failure? | – | |
| 73 | 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.) | – | |
| 74 | An engineering organization is adopting Claude Code across 200 developers. A team lead proposes that AI-generated pull requests bypass standard code review for changes under 50 lines because small changes are considered low risk and review capacity is constrained. Which two Diligence-competency objections should you raise? (Select two.) Each correct answer presents part of the solution. | – | |
| 75 | An operations engineer reports that a Claude-based pipeline began returning malformed JSON responses after a scheduled maintenance window, causing downstream processing failures. Which two investigative steps most directly isolate the root cause? (Select two.) | – | |
| 76 | During an architectural review, the security team identifies a risk that adversarial content injected into retrieved documents could manipulate the model's behavior. Which mitigation most directly addresses this threat? | – | |
| 77 | Engineering leadership wants to roll out Claude Skills to 280 developers across 14 teams. Skills will encode internal coding standards, code-review checklists, and incident-postmortem templates. Leadership has asked how to govern Skill authorship so that Skills remain trustworthy without bottlenecking on a single central team. Which governance model should you recommend? | – | |
| 78 | The compliance team at a firm has approved a Claude Skill that generates client-facing investment summaries. The Skill includes the firm's required disclaimers and prohibited-language list. A product manager has asked whether additional guardrails are needed at the application layer or whether the Skill alone is sufficient. Which two guardrail responsibilities should remain at the application layer rather than the Skill? (Select two.) Each correct answer presents part of the solution. | – | |
| 79 | The platform team at Trenova Systems, Inc. needs to reduce per-query cost and p95 latency for a high-volume Claude pipeline without degrading output quality on the core use case. Which two optimizations directly target both cost and latency simultaneously? (Select two.) | – | |
| 80 | When communicating an architectural decision to a security and compliance reviewer, which content set is most aligned with that audience's primary concerns? | – | |
| 81 | You are assessing a Claude-based system whose dominant risk is silent quality drift on safety-relevant outputs after a model-version upgrade. Which assessment activity most directly addresses this risk? | – | |
| 82 | You are building a feedback-and-alignment routine for a multi-stakeholder deployment. Which two practices belong in the routine? (Select two.) Each correct answer presents a complete solution. | – | |
| 83 | You are classifying token-management tactics by where each tactic applies in the request lifecycle: "Input Preparation," "Prompt Construction," or "Output Handling." | – | |
| 84 | You are compiling continuity practices that span the deployment lifecycle. Which two practices belong on the list? (Select two.) Each correct answer presents a complete solution. | – | |
| 85 | You are defining an SLA for a Claude-based assistant. Which SLA definition is most operationally meaningful? | – | |
| 86 | You are designing a content moderation classifier that processes high volumes of user-generated comments under a tight per-message latency budget using well-defined classification labels. Which model selection best aligns with the workload? | – | |
| 87 | You are designing a feedback session for a deployment in flight. Which structure best supports productive stakeholder feedback? | – | |
| 88 | You are designing a test strategy for a Claude-based pipeline that handles sensitive financial data. Which two test types should be prioritized to cover both safety under attack and cross-component correctness? (Select two.) | – | |
| 89 | You are diagnosing a Claude Code session whose subagent uses 50,000 tokens of context before the engineer types a single message. Which root cause is most likely? | – | |
| 90 | You are distinguishing functional from non-functional requirements during discovery. Which item is a non-functional requirement? | – | |
| 91 | You are evaluating a Claude-based deployment for adherence to a specific regulation. Which two steps must be completed BEFORE mapping deployment data flows to specific regulatory clauses? (Select two.) Each correct answer presents part of the solution. | – | |
| 92 | You are evaluating prompting claims in a peer's design document. For each claim, select yes if the claim reflects sound practice. Otherwise, select no. | – | |
| 93 | 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. | – | |
| 94 | You are explaining the precedence of Claude Code configuration scopes to the team. Which precedence ordering, from highest to lowest, is correct? | – | |
| 95 | You are identifying inefficiency in a Claude Code workflow where each engineer manually re-explains the project's conventions and architecture in every session. Which adjustment most directly removes this inefficiency? | – | |
| 96 | You are identifying the highest-impact optimization for a deployment whose token cost is dominated by a long, repeated system prompt and a large retrieved context per request. Which optimization most directly targets the dominant cost driver? | – | |
| 97 | You are integrating Claude Code into a team workflow and must complete the design and configuration steps before piloting the integrated workflow with a small group. Which two steps must be completed BEFORE piloting the integrated workflow? (Select two.) Each correct answer presents part of the solution. | – | |
| 98 | You are integrating Claude Code into the team's pull-request workflow. The team wants AI-assisted review without removing human approval. Which integration design best fits this requirement? | – | |
| 99 | You are integrating human review into a high-volume classification pipeline where reviewing every output is infeasible. Which sampling strategy best balances throughput with quality oversight? | – | |
| 100 | You are preparing a HIPAA-eligible deployment for a healthcare customer. Which configuration supports HIPAA compliance using Anthropic-offered tools? | – | |
| 101 | You are preparing an operational runbook for a Claude-based service. Which content is essential to include in the runbook? | – | |
| 102 | You are producing an architecture guide for a new deployment and must complete the planning steps before drafting each section. Which two steps must be completed BEFORE drafting each section of the guide? (Select two.) Each correct answer presents part of the solution. | – | |
| 103 | You are reviewing a peer's Claude Code permission rules for an enterprise rollout. The rules grant unrestricted Bash access to all projects across all developers. Which response is most appropriate? | – | |
| 104 | You are reviewing a peer's end-to-end design for a Claude-based platform expected to scale to thousands of concurrent users. For each statement, indicate Yes if it reflects sound architectural practice. Otherwise, select No. | – | |
| 105 | You are reviewing an integration specification for security gaps. Which two findings constitute valid security gaps in the specification? (Select two.) Each correct answer presents a complete solution. | – | |
| 106 | You are reviewing instrumentation in a multi-agent system. Which two findings constitute valid observability gaps in the instrumentation? (Select two.) Each correct answer presents a complete solution. | – | |
| 107 | You are rolling out a standardized Claude Code configuration to an engineering team and must complete the planning steps before piloting the configuration. Which two steps must be completed BEFORE piloting the configuration with a small group of engineers? (Select two.) Each correct answer presents part of the solution. | – | |
| 108 | You are running a controlled experiment to compare two prompts and must complete the design steps before executing the experiment. Which two steps must be completed BEFORE running the experiment with random assignment? (Select two.) Each correct answer presents part of the solution. | – | |
| 109 | You are running a risk assessment on a planned Claude-based deployment and must complete the inventory steps before assessing threats against assets. Which two steps must be completed BEFORE assessing threats against assets to estimate likelihood and impact? (Select two.) Each correct answer presents part of the solution. | – | |
| 110 | You are selecting a protocol for a single low-latency stateless tool call from a Claude-based assistant to an internal pricing service that already exposes a stable HTTP API. Which integration mechanism is the most appropriate? | – | |
| 111 | You are supporting an EU-based deployment with GDPR obligations. Which combination of measures best supports the deployment's GDPR posture? | – | |
| 112 | You are transitioning a Claude-based deployment from design into implementation. Which handoff package most directly supports a clean transition? | – | |
| 113 | You must present an architectural recommendation to deploy a Claude-based contract review assistant to a steering committee that includes the CFO, the general counsel, and the CIO. Each stakeholder cares about different aspects of the decision. How should you structure the recommendation document? | – |