Q35 of 60 — CCA Practice Exam

Claude Code for Continuous Integration

Your CI pipeline runs Claude Code on every pull request to perform automated code review. After three weeks in production, the team notices that 40% of PR runs are consuming 3–5x more tokens than expected, and several have hit context limits mid-task. Examining the logs, you find that these expensive runs share a pattern: Claude explores multiple implementation approaches before settling on one, writing partial code in several directions before the task completes. What change to the CI workflow would most directly address this cost and reliability problem?

A. Increase the token budget allocated to each CI run so that context-limit failures no longer interrupt mid-task execution and all approaches can complete.

B. Add a system prompt instruction telling Claude to commit to its first implementation approach and avoid exploratory rewrites before producing output.

C. Invoke Claude in plan mode first, gate the pipeline on the proposed approach, then proceed to implementation — structurally separating exploration from code generation.

D. Switch the CI pipeline to spawn an agent team, assigning each candidate implementation approach to a separate teammate so that exploration is parallelized across context windows.