CCAR-P Practice Question: Stakeholder Communication and Lifecycle Management
Your organization is preparing to retire a legacy Claude model snapshot that several internal teams still call through their own applications. You must communicate the deprecation without disrupting business operations. (Choose two.)
⚠ Common exam trap
The trap here is believing that preventing visible disruption, either through silent redirection or indefinite extension, is the same as managing a deprecation well.
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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Identify each consuming team, confirm their migration owner, and track migration status against the sunset date.
Effective deprecation communication combines a clear timeline with a named replacement and per-team migration guidance, plus identification of each consuming team and its migration owner with status tracking. Together these give consumers both the information and the accountability needed to migrate before the sunset date. Silent redirection, indefinite extension, and mandatory evaluation submission each substitute a shortcut for a managed transition.
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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Extend the legacy snapshot indefinitely to avoid any possibility of disruption to internal teams.
Why it's wrong here
Indefinite extension avoids short-term disruption but accumulates technical debt, security exposure, and cost, since deprecated snapshots eventually lose support and may be removed by the provider regardless. It also removes any incentive for consuming teams to migrate. A deprecation process exists precisely to make this transition deliberate rather than forced by an external deadline.
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Identify each consuming team, confirm their migration owner, and track migration status against the sunset date.
Why this is correct
Knowing who consumes the snapshot and who owns each migration converts a broadcast announcement into an accountable plan. Tracking status against the sunset date lets the platform team intervene early with teams that are stalled, rather than discovering non-compliance on the day of removal. It also produces an accurate impact assessment if the sunset date must move.
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Silently redirect all traffic to the newest available model snapshot so consumers experience no interruption.
Why it's wrong here
Silent redirection removes consumer choice and hides a significant behavioral change. Even a newer snapshot of the same family can shift output style, latency, and refusal behavior, which may break downstream parsing or evaluation thresholds. Consumers who discover the change through failing tests rather than a notice lose trust in the platform team and may escalate unnecessarily.
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Publish a deprecation timeline with the exact sunset date, the recommended replacement snapshot, and migration guidance for each consuming team.
Why this is correct
A published timeline with a sunset date, a named replacement, and per-team migration guidance gives consumers the information they need to plan and execute the change on their own schedule. It also creates a shared reference that reduces repeated ad hoc questions. Without a concrete date and target, teams tend to defer migration until the snapshot is removed, which produces unplanned outages.
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Require every consuming team to re-run its full evaluation suite and submit results before the sunset date.
Why it's wrong here
Re-running evaluations is a sound engineering practice, but mandating submission as a gating requirement adds bureaucratic overhead that is disproportionate to a model snapshot change. It can also stall teams that lack mature evaluation suites, delaying migration for the wrong reason. Guidance and tracking achieve the same safety outcome without creating a compliance bottleneck.
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Last reviewed September 2026 · checked against the official Anthropic exam blueprint
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