Claude Certified Architect – Professional

Exam code CCAR-P. Everything below comes from the official exam guide v1.0, effective July 2026.

Exam format

Questions
63
Time limit
120 minutes
Scoring
100–1000, scaled
Pass mark
720
Exam fee
$175
Valid for
12 months
Attempts
4 per rolling year
Retake waits
14, 30, 90 days

Scoring is criterion-referenced and scaled. Anthropic publishes no raw-percentage conversion, so no percentage pass mark exists.

Domain weighting

7 domains. The proportions below are what the exam actually tests, so practice should mirror them.

  • Integration19%
  • Solution Design & Architecture17%
  • Evaluation, Testing & Optimization16%
  • Governance, Safety & Risk Management14%
  • Stakeholder Communication & Lifecycle Management14%
  • Claude Models, Prompting & Context Engineering13%
  • Developer Productivity & Operational Enablement7%

Who it's for

Mid- to senior-level professionals who design, build and deliver production AI systems on Claude.

  • Solution architects
  • AI/ML engineers
  • Technical leads
  • Senior software engineers

Not for: Entry-level developers, casual users of Claude-based applications, and anyone without experience designing end-to-end AI systems.

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