Yes — every question on the CCA Foundations exam is multiple choice. All 60 questions are also scenario-based: rather than asking you to define a term, each one describes a realistic situation — a team's Claude Code setup, an agent-architecture decision, a tool-design trade-off — and asks you to choose the best response from several options that all sound reasonable at first glance.
That distinction matters for how you prepare. A pure recall question rewards memorising definitions; a scenario-based multiple-choice question rewards judgment — recognising why three of the four options are subtly wrong, not just knowing the textbook definition of the right one. Our exam anti-patterns guide covers the traps these questions set most often, domain by domain.
The exam is also closed-book and proctored, with a 120-minute time limit for all 60 questions — no notes, no documentation, no second screen. That's one more reason scenario practice under exam-like conditions matters more than re-reading material. According to Anthropic's published exam overview, the specific scenarios you see can also vary between candidates; we'd recommend confirming the exact details of question selection on Anthropic's registration page, since we're working from their public materials rather than a first-hand exam log.
Our free 10-question diagnostic and 400-question practice bank use the same multiple-choice, scenario-based format as the real exam — across all five domains — so you can build that judgment before it counts.