Q58 of 60 — CCA Practice Exam

Developer Productivity with Claude

A developer productivity tool uses Claude to analyze large codebases. Developers report that when they ask Claude to review a repository's architecture — submitting 40–50k tokens of source files along with detailed instructions, coding standards, and specific review questions — the responses frequently miss critical architectural issues that are clearly present in the submitted files. The logs confirm the full context is being received. What is the most likely root cause of this degraded analysis quality?

A. The context window is too small to hold 40–50k tokens of source files alongside the instructions, causing silent truncation of the file content before analysis.

B. The prompt places detailed instructions and review questions before the source files, causing Claude's attention to degrade on the document content that appears later in the context.

C. The review questions are too open-ended, so Claude prioritizes surface-level patterns it can detect quickly rather than performing a deep architectural analysis.

D. Claude lacks sufficient working memory for multi-file analysis tasks and requires the codebase to be split into separate, sequential requests to maintain accuracy.