# CCAR-P Practice Exam 2

A second full-length, blueprint-weighted CCAR-P practice exam with new, harder, multi-constraint items.

import PracticeExam from '../../../components/PracticeExam.astro';
import { Steps } from '@prosefly/astro-components';

This is a **second full-length, 63-item** practice exam for CCAR-P. Every item is **new** — none appears in Practice Exam 1 or on the domain pages — and the set is tuned to be **slightly harder** than exam 1: more multi-constraint stems, more capacity/cost arithmetic, and more `FIRST` / `MOST cost-effective` / `TWO` qualifiers that reward reading the whole stem before answering. The blueprint weighting is identical to exam 1, so your per-domain scores are directly comparable.

## What is different from exam 1

- **Harder qualifiers.** Several stems ask for the `FIRST` action or the `MOST cost-effective` design, so more than one option is defensible and you must pick the best.
- **Arithmetic items.** You will compute per-request cost, RPM/ITPM/OTPM, cache savings, recall@k, MRR, and A/B significance from the numbers given.
- **Multi-constraint scenarios.** Residency + existing cloud + irreversible action, or PHI + ZDR + placement, must all be satisfied at once.
- **Same distractor families** as exam 1 (constraint-blind, over-engineered, prompt-as-enforcement, self-report, silent failure, recall-only, aggregate-metric, sentiment-as-complexity) so practising exam 1 transfers directly.

## Domain distribution

| # | Domain | Weight | Items here |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Solution Design & Architecture | 17% | 11 |
| 2 | Claude Models, Prompting & Context Engineering | 13% | 8 |
| 3 | Integration (incl. RAG) | 19% | 12 |
| 4 | Evaluation, Testing & Optimization | 16% | 10 |
| 5 | Governance, Safety & Risk Management | 14% | 9 |
| 6 | Stakeholder Communication & Lifecycle Management | 14% | 9 |
| 7 | Developer Productivity & Operational Enablement | 7% | 4 |
| | **Total** | **100%** | **63** |

## How to use both exams

<Steps>

1. **Sit Exam 1 first**, under timed conditions, before you touch exam 2. Use it to find your weak domains and restudy those domain pages.

2. **Use Exam 2 as the booking gate.** Only after Exam 1 is comfortable (≥ 80% raw, no single domain far below the rest) should you sit this harder set. Treat a strong Exam 2 as the signal that you are ready to book.

3. **Compare per-domain results** across both sittings. A domain that drops sharply from exam 1 to exam 2 is where the deeper, multi-constraint reasoning is still shaky — return to that domain page's scenario walkthrough and misconceptions table.

</Steps>

:::tip[Scoring proxy]
The real exam scales 100–1000 with a pass at **720**; there is no guessing penalty, so answer everything. As a raw proxy, aim for **≥ 80% (≈ 50/63)** on this harder set before booking, and confirm no single domain is far below the others.
:::

## Take the practice exam

<PracticeExam exam="ccar-p" set={2} />