Atlassian Jira Administration for Cloud (ACP-JCA) Exam Syllabus

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The Atlassian Jira Administration for Cloud certification is mainly targeted to those candidates who want to build their career in Jira domain. The Atlassian Certified Professional Jira Administrator for Cloud (ACP-JCA) exam verifies that the candidate possesses the fundamental knowledge and proven skills in the area of Atlassian ACP-JCA.

Atlassian Jira Administration for Cloud Exam Summary:

Exam Name	Atlassian Certified Professional Jira Administrator for Cloud (ACP-JCA)
Exam Code	ACP-120
Exam Price	$249 (USD)
Duration	180 mins
Number of Questions	75
Passing Score	63%
Books / Training	Jira Administration for Cloud
Schedule Exam	Certmetrics
Sample Questions	Atlassian Jira Administration for Cloud Sample Questions
Practice Exam	Atlassian ACP-120 Certification Practice Exam

Atlassian ACP-120 Exam Syllabus Topics:

Topic	Details	Weights
Access, permissions, and security	- Determine appropriate administrator privileges The three admin types: org admin, Jira admin, project admin Granting the admin privilege to each admin type What actions can be performed by each admin type - Configure global permissions Purpose of each global permission Global permissions are granted to groups - Configure project permissions Distinction between access in team-managed projects and permission schemes in company-managed projects Purpose of each permission Which permissions are needed in combination When to use project roles versus groups Configuring user/group custom fields in permissions Relationship between certain project permissions and global settings (e.g. issue-linking and Link Issues permission) - Configure issue-level security Use cases for using issue-level security Using Reporter, Assignee, and user/group custom fields as Security Level entries Configurations required to enable issue-level security in a project Use of restrictions in team-managed projects Issue level security inheritance	25%-30%
General project configuration	- Understand project types, templates, and shared configurations Know differences between team-managed and company managed projects, including features, boards, and configuration options Determine which project type to use - team-managed or company-managed project along with scrum versus Kanban Project templates and how to select them Advantages and limitations of shared configurations for company-managed project - Configure project details and sidebar Project details configuration Impact of modifying a project’s name and/or key - Manage versions Implications of releasing a version with unresolved issues Merge, delete and release a version Version naming/unique names - Configure components and auto-assignments Understand how default assignee is determined when multiple components are selected Setting a project default assignee Understand how default assignee is determined with a combination of project default assignee and component assignees	10%-15%
Issue types, fields, and screens	- Configure issue types Creating issue types and issue type schemes Impact of changing an issue type name Mapping issue types to workflows, issue type screen schemes and field configuration schemes in company-managed projects Use cases for utilizing sub-tasks Understand how time-tracking on sub-tasks roll up to parent Use cases for utilizing epics including cross-project epics Creating issue types in team-managed projects - Configure fields Creating custom fields including using context Field formatting in field configurations including text rendering, hidden, and required fields Adding fields to team-managed projects - Configure screens and issue layout Creating screens for company-managed projects Configuring issue layout in company-managed projects Configuring screens for issue types in team-managed projects	15%-20%
Workflows and automation	- Configure company-managed workflows Parts of workflows including statuses and transitions Parts of transitions including properties, conditions, validators, and post functions Relationship between statuses and boards Importance of setting resolution field How to set the resolution field - Configure team-managed workflows Configuring workflows for issue types Creating and configuring workflow statuses Workflow rules configuration - Configure automation rules Impact of project versus global rules Automation rule parts including rule details, triggers, branching, actions and conditions How automation rules can refer to and update linked and related issues If-else conditions Smart value syntax Relationship between project permissions and automation rules	15%-20%
Notifications	- Configure company-managed notifications Configuring notification schemes Understand what event fires each type of notification Relationship between events and recipients including project roles and groups Creating and configuring custom events including workflow modifications Relationship between notifications and personal settings - Configure team-managed notifications Configuring notifications Recipient options for notifications including project roles Relationship between notifications and personal settings - Understand personal notification settings Notification options in personal settings Relationship between notifications and personal settings - Configure mail handlers Configuration options for mail handlers Troubleshoot auto-assignment for issues created from mail handler	5%-10%
Advanced User Features	- Write advanced JQL queries JQL fields, including use of custom fields JQL functions and their available arguments JQL operators JQL keywords How to use parentheses in JQL statements to create clauses How to find issues for specific time and date ranges via JQL Limitations of basic search - Configure filters, dashboards, subscriptions Global permission for sharing dashboards and filters How project permissions impact viewing shared filter results Creating shared filters and dashboards Creating and configuring a filter subscription, including scheduling options Using groups in filter subscriptions Troubleshooting filter subscriptions Using currentUser() function in filters and their subscriptions -Understand bulk operations Available options for bulk updates Relationship between project, issue, and workflow permissions to the availability of bulk update actions Relationship of workflow transitions and the availability of bulk update actions Field mapping during bulk update Potential implications of bulk update including replacing field values and sending notifications Limitations of moving issues between company-managed to team-managed projects via bulk update	10%-15%
System administration	- Configure global user interface features Options for user default settings Options for the instance look and feel, and announcement banner Differences and relationship between user default settings and individual personal settings Impact of updating user default settings, on existing objects How to modify the Default dashboard - Configure attachments, issue links, app links, time-tracking globally Enabling and configuring estimation and time tracking Troubleshooting time tracking Enabling and configuring issue linking Configuring application and instance links - Configure statuses, resolutions, priorities and sub-tasks globally Creating statues, resolutions and priorities Impact of renaming statuses, resolutions and priorities How to disable sub-tasks Impact of renaming workflow statuses in team-managed projects - Understand system backup and import Import options Steps for creating a backup, including media How to restore data from a backup Permissions needed to perform backup and restore actions How archived projects are handled during imports from backup	5%-10%

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