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60 questions in 120 minutes, multiple choice and multiple response, with a scaled passing score of 720 out of 1,000.

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No. Like the real exam, every question is about using Claude for business work: prompting, checking output, Projects, connectors, model choice and responsible use.

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Free Claude Certified Associate Foundations (CCAO-F) Sample Questions

Not sure you are ready for the Claude Certified Associate - Foundations exam? Try the three sample questions below, then take the free, timed 25-question diagnostic. It samples all seven domains at Anthropic's official blueprint weights and runs at the real exam's pace, 2 minutes a question, so your result shows where you actually stand.

By PrepClubs Editorial Team, updated September 25, 2026

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What the free CCAO-F diagnostic includes

Twenty-five original questions in 50 minutes, drawn from the same bank as the ten full exams. Output Evaluation and Validation gets the largest share because it is about a fifth of the real exam, and every other domain appears at its published weight.

You see your score and a domain-by-domain breakdown the moment you finish, the same shape as Anthropic's own score report. That tells you which two domains to study first.

All seven domains

Prompting and Task Execution, Output Evaluation and Validation, Product and Model Selection, Workflow Integration and Solution Design, Configuration and Knowledge Management, Governance, Risk, and Responsible Use, Troubleshooting and Optimization.

The exam's question shapes

Workplace scenarios, Select TWO items that say how many to pick, and quoted prompts or Claude replies to judge.

Written from Anthropic's docs and Help Center

Original PrepClubs questions built from the official exam guide, documentation and Help Center. Not real exam items and not dumps.

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Three free CCAO-F sample questions

These three are original items held back from every paid exam. Pick an answer, then read why each option is right or wrong.

Sample 1: Output Evaluation and Validation

An operations analyst at a contact center asks Claude for a staffing forecast for the holiday season. The center opened a second site this year, so last year's staffing is not a useful comparison. The forecast looks reasonable, but past forecasts failed when they ignored factors like public holidays, sick leave and new-hire training time. The forecast goes to the regional director on Friday. What is the most useful follow-up before sending it?

A.Compare the forecast with last year's actual staffing, and then adjust any week that differs sharply.
B.Ask Claude for low, medium and high scenarios, and then send the medium scenario to the director.
C.Ask Claude to list its assumptions and omitted factors, and then check each against local conditions.
D.Ask Claude to show more weekly detail on how each figure was built, and then send the detailed version.

Answer and walkthrough

C. Completeness problems in a forecast usually hide in unstated assumptions and missing factors. Asking Claude to surface them gives the analyst a short checklist to test against real conditions such as holidays, sick leave and training time. Anthropic describes asking Claude to explain its reasoning and verify its statements as ways to reveal faulty assumptions. Why the others are wrong: Comparing with history is a good check in general, but the stem says last year's staffing is not comparable after the new site opened. Scenarios show a range but can share the same missing factors, so the medium case may still ignore holidays or training. More detail adds volume but does not reveal which factors were left out. Source: Anthropic, Reduce hallucinations, Advanced techniques.

Sample 2: Workflow Integration and Solution Design

A complaints team at a utility company handles about 40 complex complaints a week, each involving billing disputes, vulnerable customers and discretionary goodwill payments. The head of service wants Claude to improve the process while keeping each handler's judgment central to the outcome. Which way of working, as described in Anthropic's AI Fluency framework, fits best?

A.Augmentation: handlers and Claude work through each case together, and the handler decides the reply
B.Automation at first for each complaint, moving to augmentation when customers escalate again
C.Automation: Claude produces each reply from a fixed instruction set, and handlers spot-check a weekly sample
D.Agency: handlers configure Claude with policies and examples so it handles complaints on its own

Answer and walkthrough

A. In Augmentation, people and AI collaborate as thinking and task partners, so Claude can help analyze each case and draft wording while the handler decides. That keeps judgment central for complex, sensitive cases involving vulnerable customers and discretionary payments. Why the others are wrong: Automation with sample checks removes the handler's judgment from most individual outcomes. Agency configures Claude to act independently, the opposite of keeping handlers central. Starting with automation means handler judgment only arrives after a customer has already been failed. Source: Anthropic, The 4D Framework, Key takeaways.

Sample 3: Troubleshooting and Optimization

A product marketing manager on a Pro plan needs a positioning comparison of 12 competitors: pricing tiers, target segments, and recent announcements, with sources. In an ordinary chat, Claude runs a couple of web searches, cites a handful of pages, covers five competitors in depth, and treats the rest briefly. The cited pages check out, so the gap is coverage. The comparison feeds a pricing decision next week. What is the most effective next step?

A.Raise the effort level and ask Claude to give each competitor equal depth.
B.Save each competitor's pricing page as a PDF in a Project and ask there.
C.Ask Claude to quote key lines from each cited page and then compare.
D.Turn on Research and send the same comparison request to Claude again.

Answer and walkthrough

D. Research runs many searches that build on each other, typically five or more tool calls over a few minutes, and synthesizes a longer cited report. Comparing business competitors is one of Anthropic's own examples for it. Ordinary web search is meant for one or two lookups, which matches the thin coverage she got, and Research is included in Pro. Why the others are wrong: Higher effort deepens reasoning over what Claude has found, but the need is broader gathering, which is what Research is built for. Pricing PDFs cover one of the three dimensions and miss target segments and recent announcements. Quoting from cited pages grounds claims, but those pages are already accurate and the problem is coverage. Source: Claude Help Center, When should I use web search, extended thinking, and research?, Research.

What the real CCAO-F exam is like

The exam has 60 items in 120 minutes, proctored by Pearson VUE online or at a test center. Items are multiple choice or multiple response, and each multiple-response item states how many options to select. You pass with a scaled score of 720 on a 100 to 1,000 scale; the report also shows your percent correct in each domain.

The questions test applied judgment, not coding. Most describe a workplace task, a constraint and sometimes a problem, then ask for the best approach: which feature or model fits, what to check before sharing an output, what to change in a Project, or when to hand the work to someone else. Knowing what a feature does is not enough; you have to know when it is the wrong choice.

Output Evaluation and Validation (21 percent), Workflow Integration and Solution Design (16 percent) and Governance, Risk, and Responsible Use (15 percent) make up just over half of the exam. A gap in any of those three costs the most points.