Part 9 — Question Register (Q1–Q150)

All 150 questions are original practice items written for this guide. They are not official Anthropic exam questions and were not taken from any leaked material. The three official sample questions in Exam Guide v1.0 were studied for style only and not reproduced.

Completeness and uniqueness checks

  • Numbers Q1–Q150 present exactly once (verified by script): 150 of 150.
  • Single-answer items have 4 choices; multiple-response items have 5 choices and state Select TWO, matching the exam guide's statement that each item says how many to select.
  • Multi-response items (15): Q13, Q26, Q42, Q49, Q54, Q64, Q72, Q79, Q95, Q103, Q111, Q115, Q127, Q137, Q147.
  • Each question tests a distinct scenario; the Scenario column below is the duplicate check (no two rows describe the same situation).

Distribution vs. official blueprint (63-item exam)

Domain Official weight Questions here Share
D1 17% 26 17%
D2 13% 19 13%
D3 19% 29 19%
D4 16% 24 16%
D5 14% 21 14%
D6 14% 21 14%
D7 7% 10 7%
Total 100% 150

Note: the requested 30/35/35/30/20 split was replaced by the official 7-domain weights, as the master prompt allows when the blueprint differs.

Answer-letter balance (single-answer items)

A: 30 · B: 36 · C: 34 · D: 35

Register

Q Domain Difficulty Answer Objective Scenario (uniqueness key) File
1 D1 Intermediate B Translate business problems into Claude-based AI solutions A retailer's COO asks for "AI to cut returns fraud." The team has years of labeled structu 09a
2 D1 Intermediate C Align solutions to business value pillars (efficiency, transformation, A hospital network has no overnight patient-intake service today. It wants Claude to offer 09a
3 D1 Advanced A Translate business problems into Claude-based AI solutions Legal operations asks to "automate contract review." Attorneys must remain accountable; th 09a
4 D1 Advanced D Translate business problems into Claude-based AI solutions A sponsor wants contract-risk analysis of 100-page documents to be "instant, perfectly acc 09a
5 D1 Intermediate B Translate business problems into Claude-based AI solutions A team built a demo and asks which model to standardize on. There are no acceptance criter 09a
6 D1 Advanced C Translate business problems into Claude-based AI solutions A tax-software vendor must produce identical results for identical inputs; calculations fo 09a
7 D1 Intermediate A Select appropriate architectural patterns (workflow, agentic, augmente A nightly process extracts eight fields from invoices that arrive in three known layouts. 09a
8 D1 Advanced D Select appropriate architectural patterns (workflow, agentic, augmente An SRE team wants help diagnosing production anomalies. Investigation paths are unpredicta 09a
9 D1 Intermediate B Select appropriate architectural patterns (workflow, agentic, augmente A marketing team needs product descriptions that must satisfy a written brand rubric (tone 09a
10 D1 Intermediate C Select appropriate architectural patterns (workflow, agentic, augmente Support tickets fall into five categories; each needs different instructions, tools, and p 09a
11 D1 Intermediate A Select appropriate architectural patterns (workflow, agentic, augmente A reviewer must check a document for four independent risks (privacy, export control, IP, 09a
12 D1 Advanced D Select appropriate architectural patterns (workflow, agentic, augmente A research agent's costs vary wildly; some runs loop for 90 tool calls repeating similar s 09a
13 D1 Intermediate A, C Select appropriate architectural patterns (workflow, agentic, augmente Question (Select TWO): Which are valid reasons to prefer a predefined workflow over an 09a
14 D1 Advanced B Design multi-agent systems and orchestration strategies A single research agent's context fills with raw search results and answer quality degrade 09a
15 D1 Advanced C Design multi-agent systems and orchestration strategies In a multi-agent design, all worker agents share one administrator credential for CRM acce 09a
16 D1 Intermediate A Design multi-agent systems and orchestration strategies A coding assistant must implement a feature that touches an unknown number of files; the n 09a
17 D1 Expert D Design multi-agent systems and orchestration strategies Three parallel worker agents update a shared project plan and sometimes produce conflictin 09a
18 D1 Intermediate B Apply decomposition techniques for complex problem solving Generating a 40-page RFP response in one call yields uneven quality and inconsistent termi 09a
19 D1 Advanced C Apply decomposition techniques for complex problem solving A pipeline was split into 12 tiny prompt steps. Latency tripled; steps don't use different 09a
20 D1 Advanced A Apply decomposition techniques for complex problem solving A single prompt that extracts facts from medical-device complaints and then assesses regul 09a
21 D1 Intermediate D Design end-to-end architectures (input → processing → output → feedbac An assistant has been live for three months. Users can thumbs-down answers, but nothing li 09a
22 D1 Advanced B Design end-to-end architectures (input → processing → output → feedbac A PoC works for five internal users with a hard-coded key, no retries, and no logging. A r 09a
23 D1 Intermediate C Design end-to-end architectures (input → processing → output → feedbac An ADR says "Use a small model for triage," but gives no way to know when to change. 09a
24 D1 Advanced A Design end-to-end architectures (input → processing → output → feedbac Engineering favors an agent; operations favors a workflow; both argue strongly in a design 09a
25 D1 Intermediate D Align solutions to business value pillars (efficiency, transformation, A contact center wants after-call summaries to cut agent after-call work. A baseline of 4. 09a
26 D1 Intermediate A, D Select appropriate architectural patterns (workflow, agentic, augmente Question (Select TWO): Which statements are correct? 09a
27 D2 Intermediate C Select appropriate Claude models based on trade-offs A bank labels 2M customer messages per day into 40 intents with a 500 ms latency budget. O 09b
28 D2 Advanced A Select appropriate Claude models based on trade-offs An assistant answers many simple FAQ questions but occasionally receives complex multi-doc 09b
29 D2 Advanced D Select appropriate Claude models based on trade-offs A newer, cheaper model is released. A manager asks you to switch production traffic immedi 09b
30 D2 Expert B Select appropriate Claude models based on trade-offs A legal-reasoning workflow fails on multi-step cases. You have already clarified the promp 09b
31 D2 Advanced D Select appropriate Claude models based on trade-offs A team concludes "Model X is worse" after running a prompt carefully tuned for Model Y on 09b
32 D2 Intermediate D Design system prompts, templates, and guardrails A summarizer receives user-pasted emails that sometimes contain instructions like "disrega 09b
33 D2 Advanced C Design system prompts, templates, and guardrails A compensation assistant's system prompt says "Never reveal salary data of other employees 09b
34 D2 Intermediate A Design system prompts, templates, and guardrails A downstream parser fails about 3% of the time because the model adds a sentence before th 09b
35 D2 Intermediate A Design system prompts, templates, and guardrails Three teams copy-paste a shared prompt and edit it locally; behavior diverges and no one k 09b
36 D2 Intermediate D Apply prompt engineering techniques (zero-shot, few-shot, chain-of-tho A classifier handles common categories well but mislabels two subtle edge categories that 09b
37 D2 Advanced C Apply prompt engineering techniques (zero-shot, few-shot, chain-of-tho Two features: (1) a latency-critical 6-class routing step; (2) an offline multi-step finan 09b
38 D2 Advanced B Apply prompt engineering techniques (zero-shot, few-shot, chain-of-tho Five few-shot examples add 3,000 tokens to every request and raise cost and latency; quali 09b
39 D2 Advanced A Optimize context windows and manage token usage An agent degrades after about 40 turns. Logs show 90% of tokens are old tool outputs that 09b
40 D2 Intermediate D Optimize context windows and manage token usage Employees query a 300-page policy manual that changes quarterly. 09b
41 D2 Advanced C Optimize context windows and manage token usage Monitoring shows rising cost per request. Tokens are: system 1,200; tool definitions 6,500 09b
42 D2 Intermediate A, C Optimize context windows and manage token usage Question (Select TWO): Which actions reduce token cost without dropping information th 09b
43 D2 Advanced D Implement prompt reuse strategies (caching, modular prompts, Skills) You added cache_control after a 6,000-token static policy, but usage shows zero cache re 09b
44 D2 Advanced A Implement prompt reuse strategies (caching, modular prompts, Skills) Workload 1: an interactive chat with a long static policy and many users. Workload 2: a ni 09b
45 D2 Intermediate B Implement prompt reuse strategies (caching, modular prompts, Skills) A team has twelve occasionally needed procedures (release notes, incident reports, code re 09b
46 D3 Intermediate B Evaluate tool/agent configuration for capability bloat An internal assistant exposes 45 tools to every conversation. Traces show frequent wrong-t 09c
47 D3 Intermediate D Evaluate tool/agent configuration for capability bloat A business-intelligence assistant only answers read-only questions, but its database tool 09c
48 D3 Advanced A Evaluate tool/agent configuration for capability bloat The tool list includes search_docs, find_documents, and lookup_docs with nearly iden 09c
49 D3 Intermediate A, C Evaluate tool/agent configuration for capability bloat Question (Select TWO): Which observations most strongly indicate capability bloat in a 09c
50 D3 Advanced C Analyze authentication and authorization requirements to identify secu A CRM agent uses a single administrator token for all lookups. A junior rep asks about a r 09c
51 D3 Advanced B Analyze authentication and authorization requirements to identify secu A get_invoices tool takes tenant_id and customer_id as arguments supplied by the mod 09c
52 D3 Expert D Analyze authentication and authorization requirements to identify secu An HTTP-based MCP server accepts any valid OAuth token from the company's identity provide 09c
53 D3 Advanced A Analyze authentication and authorization requirements to identify secu A shared vector index serves several tenants. The app retrieves top-k chunks, sends them t 09c
54 D3 Advanced A, C Analyze authentication and authorization requirements to identify secu Question (Select TWO): Which are authorization gaps? 09c
55 D3 Intermediate C Evaluate accuracy-latency trade-offs and justify configuration decisio A consumer chat feature needs the first words to appear within a second; answers are moder 09c
56 D3 Advanced B Evaluate accuracy-latency trade-offs and justify configuration decisio A second "verification" model call doubles latency. Errors in low-risk draft replies cost 09c
57 D3 Advanced D Evaluate accuracy-latency trade-offs and justify configuration decisio Month-end spikes cause 429 errors. Retries create duplicate refund tickets in the downstre 09c
58 D3 Intermediate A Analyze observability challenges and select monitoring strategies at s Support reports more wrong answers, yet dashboards show 99.9% availability and normal late 09c
59 D3 Advanced C Analyze observability challenges and select monitoring strategies at s Engineers need prompts and tool arguments in logs for debugging, but they may contain pers 09c
60 D3 Advanced B Analyze observability challenges and select monitoring strategies at s At 50M requests/day, storing full traces for all traffic is cost-prohibitive. 09c
61 D3 Intermediate D Design a RAG pipeline with appropriate chunking and indexing strategie Policy documents have headings and tables. Fixed 200-token chunks split tables mid-row, an 09c
62 D3 Advanced A Design a RAG pipeline with appropriate chunking and indexing strategie After one team re-embedded new documents with a different embedding model, retrieval quali 09c
63 D3 Intermediate B Design a RAG pipeline with appropriate chunking and indexing strategie The assistant sometimes cites a superseded benefits policy after a new one was published. 09c
64 D3 Intermediate A, C Apply retrieval strategies matched to data shape and query pattern Question (Select TWO): Users search by exact part numbers like "AX-4410-B" and semanti 09c
65 D3 Intermediate C Apply retrieval strategies matched to data shape and query pattern Analysts ask, "What was Q3 EMEA revenue by product line?" The data lives in a warehouse. 09c
66 D3 Advanced D Apply retrieval strategies matched to data shape and query pattern Questions such as "Which suppliers of components used in Product X had incidents last year 09c
67 D3 Intermediate A Evaluate progressive discovery vs. monolithic context strategy A 40-page, rarely changing product guide is used in almost every support query. 09c
68 D3 Advanced B Apply retrieval strategies matched to data shape and query pattern End-to-end answer quality on a RAG system is 78%. You suspect retrieval but aren't sure. 09c
69 D3 Intermediate D Evaluate connection protocols and select the appropriate integration m Three applications need the same ticketing integration now, and two more teams will add ap 09c
70 D3 Intermediate C Evaluate connection protocols and select the appropriate integration m One internal application calls a single stable internal pricing API on the hot path; laten 09c
71 D3 Advanced A Evaluate connection protocols and select the appropriate integration m A partner exposes an autonomous claims-adjudication agent behind its own API. Your agent s 09c
72 D3 Advanced B, D Evaluate connection protocols and select the appropriate integration m Question (Select TWO): A developer wants to install a popular community MCP server tha 09c
73 D3 Advanced B Evaluate progressive discovery vs. monolithic context strategy An enterprise platform has 200 internal tools; any given task needs about five. Loading al 09c
74 D3 Intermediate C Evaluate progressive discovery vs. monolithic context strategy A focused assistant uses six stable tools that are relevant to almost every conversation. 09c
75 D4 Intermediate B Define evaluation metrics (accuracy, latency, cost, safety, security) A sponsor says the assistant must be "99% accurate." 09d
76 D4 Advanced D Define evaluation metrics (accuracy, latency, cost, safety, security) A candidate release scores 92% on task accuracy (threshold 90%) but yields three critical 09d
77 D4 Advanced A Define evaluation metrics (accuracy, latency, cost, safety, security) The dashboard shows mean cost per request of $0.004, within budget, but finance sees occas 09d
78 D4 Intermediate C Define evaluation metrics (accuracy, latency, cost, safety, security) A legal-summary tool scores well on text-overlap metrics but lawyers say it misses obligat 09d
79 D4 Intermediate A, C Define evaluation metrics (accuracy, latency, cost, safety, security) Question (Select TWO): Which belong in the acceptance criteria for a customer-facing a 09d
80 D4 Intermediate D Design evaluation datasets and test frameworks using mixed methodologi The eval set consists of 100 clean, typical questions. In production, users send typos, of 09d
81 D4 Advanced B Design evaluation datasets and test frameworks using mixed methodologi The team iterates on prompts while reporting results on the same 150-case set, and scores 09d
82 D4 Advanced A Design evaluation datasets and test frameworks using mixed methodologi Overall accuracy is 94%, but accuracy for questions about policies updated this quarter is 09d
83 D4 Intermediate C Design evaluation datasets and test frameworks using mixed methodologi You need to scale the evaluation of open-ended response helpfulness and tone across thousa 09d
84 D4 Advanced B Design evaluation datasets and test frameworks using mixed methodologi An LLM judge consistently prefers longer answers, even when human reviewers prefer concise 09d
85 D4 Intermediate D Design evaluation datasets and test frameworks using mixed methodologi A pipeline extracts invoice totals and dates into JSON, and reference values are known. 09d
86 D4 Advanced A Design evaluation datasets and test frameworks using mixed methodologi A RAG agent with tools gets low end-to-end scores, and the team can't tell where the failu 09d
87 D4 Intermediate C Conduct A/B testing and iterative improvements A new prompt wins on offline evals. Leadership wants to know if it improves resolution rat 09d
88 D4 Advanced A Conduct A/B testing and iterative improvements A cheaper model matches accuracy but fails two indirect-prompt-injection cases that the in 09d
89 D4 Advanced D Conduct A/B testing and iterative improvements A prompt tweak raises average quality by 2 points but drops one customer segment by 6 poin 09d
90 D4 Advanced A Conduct A/B testing and iterative improvements Three days into a planned two-week A/B test, the new variant looks better and a manager wa 09d
91 D4 Intermediate C Conduct A/B testing and iterative improvements An analyst edited the live prompt in a vendor console; quality dropped and no one can tell 09d
92 D4 Intermediate B Diagnose system issues (prompt failure, hallucinations, model mismatch The assistant ignores a length limit that appears at the end of a 3,000-word prompt which 09d
93 D4 Advanced D Diagnose system issues (prompt failure, hallucinations, model mismatch When retrieval returns nothing relevant, the assistant invents a plausible policy. 09d
94 D4 Expert A Diagnose system issues (prompt failure, hallucinations, model mismatch Quality shifted overnight, with no code changes. Your service references a floating model 09d
95 D4 Advanced A, C Diagnose system issues (prompt failure, hallucinations, model mismatch Question (Select TWO): Confident wrong answers began after a nightly index refresh. Wh 09d
96 D4 Advanced C Optimize token usage, latency, and cost-performance trade-offs Cost per request doubled after a prompt edit. Tokens per request rose and cache read token 09d
97 D4 Intermediate B Optimize token usage, latency, and cost-performance trade-offs A workflow calls three independent tools sequentially, adding latency. 09d
98 D4 Advanced D Monitor system performance using logging and observability tools Running an LLM judge over every production output is too expensive. 09d
99 D5 Advanced D Implement guardrails and safety controls An email-triage agent reads inbound customer emails and can send external emails. A penetr 09e
100 D5 Intermediate B Implement guardrails and safety controls An assistant fetches web pages and passes their text to Claude. 09e
101 D5 Intermediate A Implement guardrails and safety controls A public chatbot sees attempts to jailbreak it. You want an inexpensive pre-filter. 09e
102 D5 Advanced C Implement guardrails and safety controls An agent can write files and call external URLs. A review flags exfiltration risk. 09e
103 D5 Intermediate A, C Implement guardrails and safety controls Question (Select TWO): Which are preventive controls? 09e
104 D5 Advanced D Implement guardrails and safety controls A support bot occasionally echoes customers' full card numbers from tool results into repl 09e
105 D5 Intermediate B Identify risks, limitations, and failure modes of LLM systems An assistant has a tool that can delete customer accounts. A prompt injection triggers it. 09e
106 D5 Advanced A Identify risks, limitations, and failure modes of LLM systems A crafted document causes an agent to loop through thousands of tool calls, creating a sur 09e
107 D5 Advanced C Identify risks, limitations, and failure modes of LLM systems Reviewers accept AI recommendations 99% of the time and rarely read evidence. 09e
108 D5 Advanced D Apply human-in-the-loop validation strategies A procurement agent has low confidence on a $40,000 vendor change that cannot be easily re 09e
109 D5 Expert B Apply human-in-the-loop validation strategies A design auto-approves actions when Claude states "confidence: 95%." 09e
110 D5 Intermediate A Apply human-in-the-loop validation strategies The safety-screening service times out during a traffic spike. 09e
111 D5 Advanced A, C Apply human-in-the-loop validation strategies Question (Select TWO): Which changes best reduce rubber-stamp approvals? 09e
112 D5 Advanced C Ensure compliance with regulations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, FedRAMP) A payer wants an assistant to summarize member calls containing PHI. Design freeze is next 09e
113 D5 Advanced D Ensure compliance with regulations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, FedRAMP) A user in the EU requests erasure of their personal data. The system stores it in a CRM, a 09e
114 D5 Advanced B Ensure compliance with regulations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, FedRAMP) A federal agency requires services authorized at a specific FedRAMP impact level. 09e
115 D5 Intermediate A, C Ensure compliance with regulations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, FedRAMP) Question (Select TWO): Which implement the principle of data minimization? 09e
116 D5 Intermediate A Ensure compliance with regulations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, FedRAMP) An auditor asks you to demonstrate that access controls work. 09e
117 D5 Advanced C Address ethical AI considerations (bias, fairness, transparency) A résumé-screening assistant ranks identical resumes differently when applicant names chan 09e
118 D5 Intermediate D Address ethical AI considerations (bias, fairness, transparency) A benefits assistant influences eligibility guidance. 09e
119 D5 Advanced B Address ethical AI considerations (bias, fairness, transparency) Overall accuracy is 95%, but it is 82% for one language group; the acceptance policy requi 09e
120 D6 Intermediate B Elicit and clarify business requirements through discovery A VP says, "We need an AI agent for customer support." No metrics, volumes, or constraints 09f
121 D6 Advanced C Elicit and clarify business requirements through discovery Two executives give conflicting goals: Operations wants minimum cost per ticket; Legal wan 09f
122 D6 Intermediate D Communicate trade-offs and set realistic expectations A stakeholder asks for "100% accuracy" on policy answers. 09f
123 D6 Advanced B Communicate trade-offs and set realistic expectations Finance asks why the pilot's cost per resolved case is above projections. Analysis shows l 09f
124 D6 Intermediate C Build a business case and communicate value You must write an executive summary for a steering committee. 09f
125 D6 Advanced D Build a business case and communicate value A business case claims "$3M savings" based on automating 100% of tickets. 09f
126 D6 Advanced B Define SLAs and manage approvals/objections The business asks for "99.99% availability and 1-second responses" for an agent that makes 09f
127 D6 Advanced A, C Define SLAs and manage approvals/objections Question (Select TWO): A security team objects that the agent could leak data. Which r 09f
128 D6 Intermediate B Define SLAs and manage approvals/objections A change to the system prompt could alter customer-facing tone. Compliance requires approv 09f
129 D6 Intermediate C Manage the solution lifecycle from PoC to production A PoC with ten curated examples impressed the sponsor, who wants to go live next week. 09f
130 D6 Advanced D Manage the solution lifecycle from PoC to production A pilot serves 5% of traffic. Quality is on target, but cost per case is rising with usage 09f
131 D6 Advanced C Manage the solution lifecycle from PoC to production The provider announces that the model version you use will be deprecated in 90 days. 09f
132 D6 Intermediate B Produce documentation and handoff artifacts The client's team will operate the solution after launch. 09f
133 D6 Advanced C Produce documentation and handoff artifacts Six months later, nobody remembers why a prompt uses a particular retrieval cutoff. 09f
134 D6 Intermediate C Produce documentation and handoff artifacts A production-readiness review is scheduled. 09f
135 D6 Advanced B Elicit and clarify business requirements through discovery Discovery reveals the target process is deterministic, with stable rules and structured in 09f
136 D6 Intermediate D Communicate trade-offs and set realistic expectations The sponsor wants to launch broadly after an impressive pilot, but metrics show weak perfo 09f
137 D6 Advanced A, C Manage the solution lifecycle from PoC to production Question (Select TWO): Which are appropriate post-launch lifecycle practices? 09f
138 D6 Advanced B Define SLAs and manage approvals/objections A customer's contract requires that a human review all legal-risk responses within 4 hours 09f
139 D6 Intermediate C Build a business case and communicate value After launch, the sponsor asks, "Is it working?" 09f
140 D6 Expert D Produce documentation and handoff artifacts A regulated client requires evidence that changes were reviewed, tested, and approved befo 09f
141 D7 Intermediate A Configure shared team tooling and standards A 40-engineer team uses Claude Code. Each developer re-explains build commands, convention 09g
142 D7 Advanced C Configure shared team tooling and standards Security wants to prevent the coding agent from reading secrets files or running destructi 09g
143 D7 Intermediate C Establish developer workflows with AI assistance A developer asks the agent to refactor a large module in one request. The result is a huge 09g
144 D7 Advanced D Establish developer workflows with AI assistance The team wants an agent to review pull requests in CI. 09g
145 D7 Intermediate B Create operational runbooks and support processes At 2 a.m. the on-call engineer sees a spike in refusals and escalations from the productio 09g
146 D7 Advanced A Create operational runbooks and support processes The assistant's behavior changed after a "minor" prompt tweak, and nobody can tell which v 09g
147 D7 Intermediate A, C Train and onboard teams Question (Select TWO): Which practices best onboard a team to a new AI-assisted workfl 09g
148 D7 Advanced B Configure shared team tooling and standards Teams want to reuse a standard code-review procedure with reference checklists and scripts 09g
149 D7 Intermediate A Establish developer workflows with AI assistance A team wants a deterministic action every time the agent edits a file, such as running the 09g
150 D7 Advanced B Create operational runbooks and support processes Leadership asks how to know whether the AI-assisted workflow improves engineering outcomes 09g