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Anthropic Claude Certified Architect - Professional Sample Questions:

1. You are transitioning a Claude-based deployment from design into implementation.
Which handoff package most directly supports a clean transition?

A) Source code alone with no integrating architecture overview, ADRs, component contracts, evaluation framework, runbooks, on-call playbook, or known-limitations register to support the delivery team.
B) The most recent set of design presentation slides without component-level diagrams, interface contracts, an evaluation framework with a reference set, runbooks, or a known-limitations register.
C) Architecture overview, ADRs, component contracts, evaluation framework with reference set, runbooks, on-call playbook, and known limitations.
D) A verbal walkthrough conducted on the day of handoff with no written architecture overview, ADRs, component contracts, evaluation framework, runbooks, playbook, or known limitations.

2. 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?

A) Inverse sampling that reviews only high-confidence routine outputs and skips low-confidence and high- impact outputs.
B) No sampling, relying entirely on user complaints to reveal quality and safety problems after they affect users.
C) Universal review of every output regardless of confidence or throughput impact.
D) Risk-stratified sampling that reviews all low-confidence and high-impact outputs and a smaller random sample of high-confidence routine outputs.

3. 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?

A) Increase the maximum context length and load all 60 tool definitions on every request, accepting the higher token cost and latency as necessary for full capability.
B) Hard-code a fixed set of five tools per request to reduce token usage, regardless of whether those tools are relevant to the current task.
C) Use a separate model call to summarize all 60 tool definitions before each user turn.
D) Apply progressive tool discovery so a curated initial subset is exposed and additional tools are loaded on demand based on the task.

4. 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) The model may carry demographic biases from pretraining that manifest in screening outcomes regardless of fine-tuning.
D) Fairness testing is required only when the training dataset is known to contain protected-class labels.
E) The system should be evaluated on outcome-disparity metrics across protected groups before deployment.

5. 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?

A) Verify the MCP server is registered using the listing command, then reconnect the session if needed, since configuration changes typically require a restart to take effect.
B) Switch the team to a different Claude product family unrelated to the existing workflow, abandoning the current configuration rather than diagnosing the registration issue.
C) Reinstall the developer's operating system from scratch, discarding all local configuration and tool state before attempting any targeted diagnostic steps.
D) Disable every MCP server in the configuration to isolate the issue, removing all tool access rather than confirming whether the new server is registered.

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