Quick answer
Three CCA-F practice exams are genuinely free with no signup and no payment, ever: ACP (532 questions, scored), CertSafari (614 questions), and a community GitHub repo that runs inside Claude Code (77 questions). TutorialsDojo, explainx, and Udemy all charge for the full product, though TutorialsDojo and explainx offer a free taste first. Every number on this page was checked directly on 2026-08-04 - prices and counts in this market move, so treat any single figure as a snapshot.
Seven CCA-F practice exams, compared
| Provider | Free tier | Paid price | Question count | Signup required | Format notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| certificationpractice.com | Unconfirmed | Unconfirmed | Unconfirmed | Unconfirmed | Full-length simulated exams per their own listing; see verification note below |
| CertSafari | Entire bank, no signup | None | 614 | No | Flat question list with explanations; no scored result described |
| Claude Certified Architect Prep (ACP, this site) | Sample (4), diagnostic (10), warm-up (15) - unlimited, no account | None - no paid tier exists | 532 | Only for the 30/60-Q scored mock (free account, 3 lifetime attempts) | The only free option we could confirm scores to the real exam's 1000-point scale with the 720 pass mark; the GitHub skill also scores, to its own format; certificationpractice.com's mechanism is unconfirmed |
| explainx.ai | Browsing only | $10 lifetime | 540 (8 mock tests) | Yes, plus payment to test | Largest paid bank with a published exact count; domain-organized drills |
| GitHub (community repos) | Entire repo, no signup | None | 77 (one verified repo; several others exist with unconfirmed counts) | No | Only option that installs as a Claude Code skill and runs in your terminal |
| TutorialsDojo | 20-question sampler | $14.99/year | 20 free; full count not published on the page checked | Yes | 4 practice modes (randomized, timed, review, section-based) plus flashcards |
| Udemy (multiple courses) | Varies by course | Varies by course, region, and promotion | Typically 3-6 practice exams per course | Yes | 8+ near-identical listings from different instructors |
Sorted alphabetically by provider name - this is not a ranking. "Best" depends on what you're optimizing for, and the breakdown below sorts by that instead.
How we checked this
Every fact above came from fetching each provider's own page directly on 2026-08-04, not from a database or a competitor's marketing copy (🟢 first-hand: CertSafari, TutorialsDojo, explainx, one GitHub repo). Two things went wrong during that process worth naming, because they're the whole reason this page has a verification section at all: an earlier search-result summary for explainx said "$5 lifetime" - the price on explainx's own page, fetched directly, is $10. And certificationpractice.com blocked three separate automated requests (HTTP 429) across two tools and two different user agents, so its price, question count, and scoring mechanism are marked unconfirmed above rather than guessed. Two more free options exist in this space that we did not deep-verify for this table - claudecertifications.com and claudecertificationguide.com - named here rather than left as a vague "others exist."
Zero-friction free vs. the free sampler
There's a real difference between the two kinds of "free" on this page, worth naming because it's easy to miss when you're scanning quickly. Zero-friction free means the whole thing, no account, no card, ever - that's ACP's sample/diagnostic/warm-up, CertSafari, and the GitHub repo. The free sampler means a taste before the paywall - TutorialsDojo's 20 questions, explainx's browse-only access - which is a completely legitimate way to sell a product, just not the same thing as "free" in the first sense. If what you actually want is unlimited free practice, only the first group delivers that; the second group is closer to a demo.
Which one should you actually use?
Match the option to what you're optimizing for, not to whichever one you found first.
- Want the most raw question volume for free? CertSafari's 614 questions is the largest verified free bank on this page.
- Want a scored result that mirrors the real exam's domain weighting? ACP's mock is the only free option we could confirm scores to the real 1000-point scale with the real 720 pass mark, stratified to the official domain weights (certificationpractice.com's mechanism is unconfirmed) - or explainx's paid mocks, which are also domain-organized.
- Want to practice without leaving your terminal? The GitHub Claude Code skill is the only reviewed option built for that.
- Want exam-simulation features - timers, flashcards, section drills - and don't mind paying? TutorialsDojo ($14.99/year) or explainx ($10 lifetime) both add those on top of a free option's raw questions.
- Want the biggest paid bank with an exact published count? explainx's 540 questions across 8 mock tests is the largest paid figure checked here (TutorialsDojo doesn't publish its full total; Udemy varies by course).
None of that requires paying anything to start. If you want to see where you'd actually land before deciding whether to go deeper, ACP's free practice exam needs no account for the sample or the 10-question diagnostic, and takes about 10 minutes.
Where this lands in the exam-prep map
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Exam Guide
Claude Certified Architect certification
The full CCA-F blueprint, format, and domain weights that every practice exam on this page is trying to approximate.
Open ↗Practice
ACP's free CCA-F practice exam
The deepest link on this page - take the option compared here for yourself, no account needed to start.
Open ↗Exam Guide
CCA-F study plans
Once you have picked a practice exam, this is where to put it inside an actual multi-week study schedule.
Open ↗Knowledge
Agentic AI certification
Practice questions test recall of scenarios; this page goes deep on the agentic-architecture reasoning the CCA-F actually grades.
Open ↗Exam Guide
How to register for the CCA-F
Once a practice score feels close to 720/1000, this is how to book the real, proctored exam.
Open ↗6 questions answered
What is the best free CCA-F practice exam?
Are there any completely free CCA-F practice exams with no signup at all?
no account, unlimited), CertSafari's full 614-question bank, and the OlivierAlter GitHub repository. Everything else on this page - TutorialsDojo, explainx, and Udemy - requires at minimum a free account, and the full product requires payment.