Question 11
CCA-F is a newly released exam. These practice questions reflect our best current understanding — the exact wording and question formats may change in the live exam until the certification matures. Use them to learn the concepts, not to memorize.
Scenario: Multi-agent Research System - While researching a broad topic, you observe that the web-search agent and the document analysis agent investigate the same subtopics, leading to substantial duplication in their outputs. Token usage nearly doubles without a proportional increase in research breadth or depth. What is the most effective way to address this? What is the most effective way to address this?
- AAllow both agents to finish in parallel, then have the coordinator deduplicate overlapping results before passing them to the synthesis agent.
- BThe coordinator explicitly partitions the research space before delegating, assigning each agent distinct subtopics or source types.
- CImplement a shared-state mechanism where agents log their current focus area so other agents can dynamically avoid duplication during execution.
- DSwitch to sequential execution where document analysis runs only after web search completes, using web-search results as context to avoid duplication.