CCAR-P Governance, Safety, and Risk Management Practice Question
A media company wants a lightweight, recurring review of its Claude-powered content moderation assistant. The team has no dedicated compliance staff and wants the cheapest process that still produces defensible evidence of oversight. Which approach fits best?
⚠ Common exam trap
The trap here is equating passive outcome metrics or vendor documentation with active oversight, when reviewers look for evidence that the deploying organization itself examined outputs against criteria.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Adopt a scheduled sampling review where a rotating staff member scores a fixed sample of outputs against written criteria and records the results.
Defensible oversight means showing that a named person reviewed outputs against written criteria on a defined schedule and recorded the outcome. Scheduled sampling achieves exactly that with minimal tooling and staffing, and the recorded scores form a durable evidence trail. Vendor documentation and complaint trends are supporting signals, not substitutes for local, documented human review.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Commission an annual third-party audit with formal attestation and a published report.
Why it's wrong here
A formal external audit produces strong evidence, but it is expensive, slow, and far heavier than a team without compliance staff can sustain. The scenario explicitly asks for the cheapest defensible process, and an annual attestation also leaves eleven months of unobserved behavior between reviews. It overshoots the stated need.
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Track the volume of user complaints and treat a stable or declining trend as sufficient evidence of adequate oversight.
Why it's wrong here
Complaint volume is an outcome signal that lags the behavior it measures and is easily confounded by changes in traffic or reporting habits. It also captures only failures users noticed and bothered to report. A stable trend therefore cannot demonstrate that outputs were reviewed against criteria, which is what defensible oversight evidence requires.
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Rely on the vendor's published safety evaluations and model cards as the primary evidence of the assistant's suitability.
Why it's wrong here
Vendor evaluations describe the base model under the vendor's conditions, not this company's prompts, content categories, or audience. They are useful context but provide no evidence that anyone at the company reviewed its own deployment. Presenting them as primary oversight evidence would not withstand scrutiny about who was accountable for local behavior.
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Adopt a scheduled sampling review where a rotating staff member scores a fixed sample of outputs against written criteria and records the results.
Why this is correct
Periodic human sampling against documented criteria produces dated, reproducible evidence of oversight at low cost, and it can be run by existing staff with a short rubric. Recording scores and reviewer identity creates the audit trail regulators expect. This matches the requirement for a lightweight but defensible process.
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Last reviewed September 2026 · checked against the official Anthropic exam blueprint
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