McAfee Secure

Exam Code: CCA-F

Exam Name: Claude Certified Architect - Foundations

Certification Provider: Anthropic

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Anthropic CCA-F Practice Test 26

Question 250

The same Claude Code session writes a patch and evaluates whether that patch is secure. The team worries about anchoring. Select THREE elements of a reliable independent security review.

  1. Run the critical review in a fresh isolated context with the diff, requirements and relevant source evidence.
  2. Treat self-assessment as definitive because the model knows its own reasoning.
  3. Remove the diff from the review so it has less context.
  4. Approve the generated patch when the authoring session assigns its own security score above eight out of ten.
  5. Apply independent security-review criteria for authorization changes, data exposure, failure paths and deployment effects.
  6. Run available deterministic tests and investigate any reported failures before accepting the independent finding.

Explanation

Correct Answers

A:

An independent pass can challenge assumptions from the generation session.

E:

Fresh reviewer context reduces anchoring, while explicit risk criteria give that reviewer a substantive, independent challenge rather than another repetition of the author’s confidence narrative.

F:

An independent reviewer catches reasoning defects; executable checks provide a second evidence channel for observable behavior and integration regressions.

Incorrect Answers

B:

Shared assumptions can hide defects.

C:

Reviewers need actual changed code.

D:

A self-rating reproduces the same session's assumptions without examining authorization boundaries or observable behavior. Independent code evidence and tests are needed.

Question 251

An automated PR reviewer leaves dozens of comments about spelling but misses a newly introduced authorization bypass. What should its criteria prioritize?

  1. Treat every harmless style deviation as a release blocker.
  2. Actionable correctness, security and behavior defects with exact affected lines and reproduction evidence.
  3. Increase comment count as the main quality metric.
  4. Discard source locations so feedback is shorter.

Explanation

Correct Answer

B:

Explicit severity and evidence standards guide useful review.

Incorrect Answers

A:

False positives obscure real security problems.

C:

Volume can amplify low-value findings.

D:

Reviewers need traceable lines to validate issues.

Question 252

A read-only CI review bot receives a repository token with write and administration rights. Select TWO controls that reduce risk from running code review on untrusted pull requests.

  1. Retain admin token because it avoids future permission requests.
  2. Let the model decide when to restrict its own token access.
  3. Hide the token in a chat prompt but leave its broad scopes unchanged.
  4. Use the minimum read and comment privileges needed for review, keeping deployment/write rights out of the job.
  5. Isolate checkout and code execution from credentials used to publish review comments.

Explanation

Correct Answers

D:

Least privilege limits the consequences of a compromised prompt or command.

E:

Least-privilege tokens reduce impact if a job is compromised. Separating execution from the authenticated comment-posting step prevents untrusted repository scripts from reading those tokens.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Convenience does not justify unused authority.

B:

The job runner must enforce credentials independently.

C:

Secrecy of wording does not narrow actual privileges.

Question 253

An AI reviewer returns a code line number and suggestion that will be posted as a PR annotation. What must the pipeline validate?

  1. Execute suggested shell commands automatically while adding comments.
  2. Post every annotation without checking its target.
  3. Check that file path and line reference belong to the current diff and treat suggested content as untrusted.
  4. Grant the reviewer push access to fix incorrect line numbers.

Explanation

Correct Answer

C:

Model-generated coordinates can be stale or malicious.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Review text is not trusted executable instruction.

B:

Incorrect locations can mislead maintainers or fail API validation.

D:

Extra privilege does not solve provenance.

Question 254

A Claude Code CI pipeline generates tests in parallel on three isolated runner shards. Each shard already receives the current test inventory, but two shards independently write an output fixture with the same filename. The artifact aggregator overwrites one fixture when merging results. Which control MOST directly prevents this collision?

  1. Run every test shard against the same shared output path and rely on the last timestamp to identify the correct fixture.
  2. Tell each test-generating agent to invent a more descriptive filename, with no cross-shard uniqueness or merge checks.
  3. Give shards namespaced output paths or deterministic unique fixture IDs, and fail the artifact merge when unexpected identifier collisions occur.
  4. Delete all other test fixtures whenever a shard begins, so its own fixture names are initially available.

Explanation

Correct Answer

C:

Namespacing prevents unrelated shards from writing the same artifact path, and a deterministic merge check detects any collision that survives the naming scheme. This addresses concurrent artifact ownership even though every shard already had the existing test inventory.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Letting the last writer win can silently discard test evidence. File write order is not proof that overlapping artifacts are safe.

B:

Descriptive names can still collide when agents run independently. Uniqueness must be enforced by naming rules or merge validation, not merely suggested in prompts.

D:

Deleting shared fixtures destroys accepted regression evidence and still does not provide a safe way to merge concurrently generated artifacts.

Question 255

CI runs a Claude Code task after checking out the repository, but the output ignores project coding conventions. What should the runner make available?

  1. The version-controlled project CLAUDE.md and applicable scoped guidance from the checked-out revision.
  2. A guessed list of standards based on package names.
  3. All secrets from organization settings embedded in the prompt.
  4. The last developer's uncommitted personal memory file.

Explanation

Correct Answer

A:

CI should use the same approved project instructions as local development.

Incorrect Answers

B:

Inferred conventions may contradict actual policy.

C:

Project instructions should not expose credentials.

D:

Private workstation state is not reliable CI configuration.

Question 256

A CI reviewer outputs JSON without a required severity field; the workflow posts an incomplete review. What is missing?

  1. Delete the required field from the downstream contract.
  2. Validate output against the required schema before side effects and return a precise field error for correction.
  3. Assign a default high severity when an extracted severity field is missing, then continue without checking the source.
  4. Post invalid data and rely on API rejection as the only QA.

Explanation

Correct Answer

B:

Syntactic JSON validity does not ensure complete annotation data.

Incorrect Answers

A:

That would change consumer expectations.

C:

A default can be inappropriate and overstate risk. Missing required classifications need validation feedback or an explicit unresolved state.

D:

Early validation gives clearer failures and avoids partial actions.

Question 257

A generated security review identifies a novel, high-impact payment exploit not covered by existing tests. The automated checker lacks authority to accept the risk. What is the proper disposition?

  1. Approve the code because the reviewer produced an output file.
  2. Report evidence and route the high-risk finding to authorized human review rather than auto-certifying it.
  3. Disable the corresponding test to avoid a blocked merge.
  4. Publish the exploit report with live credentials to solicit feedback.

Explanation

Correct Answer

B:

Risk-based escalation is appropriate when automated evidence cannot establish safety.

Incorrect Answers

A:

File creation is not security certification.

C:

Suppressing evidence increases exposure.

D:

Unnecessary secret disclosure is unsafe.

Question 258

A CI workflow uses Claude to propose shell commands, and a maintainer wants to execute every generated command automatically. What is the safer design?

  1. Assume all commands are harmless when generated during code review.
  2. Silently retry rejected commands with elevated rights.
  3. Use an approved bounded executor or command allowlist and require explicit authorization for risky operations.
  4. Run all commands with unrestricted administrator privileges.

Explanation

Correct Answer

C:

Generated text is untrusted input to a potentially privileged shell.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Review context does not guarantee command safety.

B:

Escalation bypasses the intended safety boundary.

D:

This gives a model arbitrary mutation authority.

Question 259

A CI model call times out during code review. The pipeline reports Pass because no critical issues were returned. Select TWO correct CI behaviors when the model review times out.

  1. Treat a partially returned model response as a completed security review if no high-severity finding appears in the fragment.
  2. Delete the request log so the Pass status looks consistent.
  3. Mark review inconclusive or failed, record the timeout and apply the permitted retry policy.
  4. Consider the missing response a clean review.
  5. Prevent the pipeline from interpreting missing review output as a clean approval until an authorized rerun or explicit human override completes.

Explanation

Correct Answers

C:

No findings from an interrupted run do not establish defect absence.

E:

An inconclusive review is not a Pass. A separate release guard ensures that the timeout cannot silently enable a merge that requires the review gate.

Incorrect Answers

A:

The missing review output may contain critical findings. Timeout is an incomplete state; it should not become evidence of a clean scan.

B:

Hiding failures undermines auditability.

D:

The scan never completed.

Question 260

A CI job observes an API credential in source while asking Claude to describe the failure. What log-handling policy is necessary?

  1. Repeat the full credential in all comments so the team can find it.
  2. Redact sensitive values in prompts, diagnostics and exported review artifacts while preserving nonsecret evidence.
  3. Ignore the credential because the pipeline is only a reviewer.
  4. Store the raw secret in an unprotected build artifact indefinitely.

Explanation

Correct Answer

B:

The issue can be reported without reproducing usable credentials.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Additional exposure compounds the incident.

C:

Exposed secrets still warrant handling and controlled remediation.

D:

Public or broad CI artifacts can leak tokens.

Claude Certified Architect - Foundations (CCA-F) Practice Tests