# Best Free Claude Certified Architect (CCA-F) Practice Exams, Compared (2026)

> Three CCA-F practice exams are genuinely free with no signup and no payment: ACP (532 questions, scored), CertSafari (614 questions), and a community GitHub repo (77 questions, runs inside Claude Code). TutorialsDojo, explainx, and Udemy all charge for the full product. Every price and question count below was checked directly on 2026-08-04 - this market moves fast, so treat any single figure as a snapshot, not a permanent fact.

**Published:** 2026-08-04  
**Last reviewed:** 2026-08-04  
**Certification:** CCA-F · Claude Certified Architect - Foundations · D1 Agentic Architecture & Orchestration  
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> 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](https://claudearchitectcertification.com/practice) needs no account for the sample or the 10-question diagnostic, and takes about 10 minutes.

## Related pages

- [CCA-F exam guide (overview)](https://claudearchitectcertification.com/exam-guide)
- [Free CCA-F practice exam](https://claudearchitectcertification.com/practice)
- [CCA-F study plans](https://claudearchitectcertification.com/exam-guide/study-plans)
- [Agentic AI certification](https://claudearchitectcertification.com/knowledge/agentic-ai-certification)

## Frequently asked questions

**Q: What is the best free CCA-F practice exam?**

There is no single best option - it depends what you want. Three practice exams are genuinely free with no signup: **CertSafari** (614 questions, the largest free bank we could verify, presented as a flat list), **ACP** (532 questions, scored to a domain-by-domain result), and a **community GitHub repo** (77 questions, scored plus a domain breakdown, and the only reviewed option that installs as a Claude Code skill and runs in your terminal). ACP and the GitHub repo are the two free options confirmed to return a scored result rather than a flat list. Pick by the axis that matters to you: raw volume, a scored result, or where you practice.

**Q: Are there any completely free CCA-F practice exams with no signup at all?**

Yes, three: ACP's sample, diagnostic, and warm-up modes (`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.

**Q: How many free CCA-F practice questions does each option actually offer?**

Checked 2026-08-04, directly on each site: ACP 532, CertSafari 614, the OlivierAlter GitHub repo 77 (other community repos exist with unconfirmed counts), TutorialsDojo's free sampler 20 (its full paid course adds more but does not publish an exact total on the page we checked), and explainx 0 free questions - browsing is free, taking any test requires the $10 lifetime payment.

**Q: What is the real difference between free and paid CCA-F practice exams?**

The paid options we checked - TutorialsDojo ($14.99/year) and explainx ($10 lifetime) - add exam-simulation features the free options do not uniformly have: timed modes, section-based drills, flashcards, and review-mode replays. explainx's 540 questions across 8 mock tests is the largest paid bank with a published exact count (CertSafari's 614 free questions is still the largest confirmed count of any kind on this page). Udemy courses vary by instructor but follow the same pattern - a bundle of full-length timed practice tests, priced per course.

**Q: Is there a CCA-F practice exam that runs inside Claude Code?**

Yes. Of the options reviewed here, the OlivierAlter GitHub repository is the only one that ships as an installable Claude Code skill - it runs as an interactive session in your terminal, with scoring and a domain breakdown, rather than in a browser.

**Q: Which CCA-F practice option gives a scored, domain-weighted result like the real exam?**

ACP's mock (30 or 60 questions, scored to 1000 with the real 720 pass mark, stratified to the official domain weights) and the OlivierAlter GitHub Claude Code skill (scoring plus a domain breakdown) are the two free options we could confirm do this. explainx's paid mocks are also domain-organized. CertSafari's page does not describe a scored or domain-weighted result, and certificationpractice.com's scoring mechanism could not be independently verified - see the verification note below.

## Where this fits on the site

- **Claude Certified Architect certification** (exam-guide): The full CCA-F blueprint, format, and domain weights that every practice exam on this page is trying to approximate. — https://claudearchitectcertification.com/exam-guide
- **ACP's free CCA-F practice exam** (practice): The deepest link on this page - take the option compared here for yourself, no account needed to start. — https://claudearchitectcertification.com/practice
- **CCA-F study plans** (exam-guide): Once you have picked a practice exam, this is where to put it inside an actual multi-week study schedule. — https://claudearchitectcertification.com/exam-guide/study-plans
- **Agentic AI certification** (knowledge): Practice questions test recall of scenarios; this page goes deep on the agentic-architecture reasoning the CCA-F actually grades. — https://claudearchitectcertification.com/knowledge/agentic-ai-certification
- **How to register for the CCA-F** (exam-guide): Once a practice score feels close to 720/1000, this is how to book the real, proctored exam. — https://claudearchitectcertification.com/exam-guide/registration-and-cost

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