Discovery & Requirements — CCAR-P Practice Question
A representative Claude Certified Architect - Professional (CCAR-P) exam question on Discovery & Requirements. Work through it below, then read why each option is right or wrong.
Short answer
The correct answer is D. A measurable target, task boundaries, current process baseline, failure costs, decision rights, and escalation requirements.
Architecture should follow a measurable operating problem and its constraints. Selecting technology before defining success and risk produces an untestable solution.
The Question
An executive asks for an autonomous agent to 'eliminate support backlog.' What should the architect establish before selecting a model or framework?
Why D is correct
Architecture should follow a measurable operating problem and its constraints. Selecting technology before defining success and risk produces an untestable solution.
Why the other options are wrong
Option A does not satisfy the requirement in the scenario. Review the explanation above: the correct choice (D) is the only one that fully meets every constraint stated in the question.
Option B does not satisfy the requirement in the scenario. Review the explanation above: the correct choice (D) is the only one that fully meets every constraint stated in the question.
Option C does not satisfy the requirement in the scenario. Review the explanation above: the correct choice (D) is the only one that fully meets every constraint stated in the question.
Key idea: Discovery & Requirements
Architecture should follow a measurable operating problem and its constraints. Selecting technology before defining success and risk produces an untestable solution. On the CCAR-P exam, questions in the "Solution Design and Architecture" domain test whether you can map a scenario's constraints to the right choice. Read the requirement carefully, eliminate options that violate any single constraint, and pick the one that satisfies all of them with the least operational overhead.
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