Q41 of 60 — CCA Practice Exam

Developer Productivity with Claude

A developer has been using Claude Code to debug a complex authentication issue for 45 minutes. The session transcript is approaching context limits: the first 20 messages contain the original feature spec and architectural decisions, while the next 60 messages are dense back-and-forth debug logs and stack traces that are consuming most of the available context. The developer wants to continue in the same session without losing the early architectural context. What is the most effective way to reclaim context space while preserving the early session detail?

A. Use "Summarize from here" at the start of the debugging phase, leaving the early architectural messages untouched and replacing the verbose debug exchange with a compact AI-generated summary targeted at the noisy portion.

B. Run /compact on the entire session to compress the full conversation — including the early architectural decisions and all 60 debug messages — into a single summary before continuing work.

C. Fork the session with claude --continue --fork-session to preserve the original transcript intact and open a new branch with its own context budget for the remaining debugging work.

D. Restore to the checkpoint at message 20 to strip out all 60 debug messages and the associated code changes, then re-describe the authentication problem in a fresh, condensed prompt to Claude.