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Atlassian ACP-120 Exam Overview :

Exam Name: Jira Administration for Cloud
Exam Code: ACP-120
Certifications: Atlassian Certified Professional Certification
Actual Exam Duration: 180 minutes
Expected no. of Questions in Actual Exam: 75
Exam Registration Price: $249
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Atlassian ACP-120 Exam Objectives :

Section Weight Objectives
Access, Permissions, Security 28% Jira Cloud administrators are responsible for access at all levels: organization, product,
project, and issue. This includes both licenced and anonymous access, managed and
unmanaged accounts, appropriate administrator privileges, and use of groups and
project roles, in both team-managed and company-managed projects. This also
requires understanding the interdependence between product access, global
permissions, project permissions, workflow conditions, and issue-level-security.



Jira Cloud administrators are responsible for access at all levels: organization, product,
project, and issue. This includes both licenced and anonymous access, managed and
unmanaged accounts, appropriate administrator privileges, and use of groups and
project roles, in both team-managed and company-managed projects. This also
requires understanding the interdependence between product access, global
permissions, project permissions, workflow conditions, and issue-level-security.



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. issuelinking 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
General Project Configuration 11% Jira Cloud administrators are responsible for creating and configuring the projects,
including determining the correct project type, which template to use, configuring
project details and implementing components and versions.
2.1 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
Issue Types, Fields, Screens 18% Jira Cloud administrators are responsible for the creation and maintenance of issue types, fields, screens and their schemes. They need to know how to configure issue layouts in both team and company-managed projects. They must understand the use cases for the creation of new issue types, and custom fields and how to utilize custom field context. Jira admins must also understand the use cases for epics and sub-tasks, for both scrum and Kanban projects.



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
Workflows and Automation 14% Jira Cloud administrators are responsible for creating usable and sustainable workflows
including project-level customizations in both company and team-managed projects.
They need to understand all parts of workflow configuration and the relationship
between workflows and boards. Jira Cloud administrators must be able to interpret
business requirements to create automation rules to perform repetitive tasks. Finally
they must understand the relationship between project roles, permissions and
automation rules


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 team-managed workflows
Configuring workflows for issue types
Creating and configuring workflow statuses
Workflow rules configuration
Notifications 8% Jira Cloud administrators are responsible for creating and sometimes limiting the emails sent from Jira. They must understand each event within the notification scheme, and how to create custom notifications and add them to workflows. They need to understand how to configure notifications in team-managed projects. They must know how to troubleshoot notifications including understanding the relationship between notifications and personal settings. Jira Cloud administrators must know how to create, configure, and troubleshoot mail handlers. 


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
Advanced User Features 12% Jira Cloud administrators need to know how to interpret user requirements to create complex filters, with multiple clauses, using Jira Query Language (JQL). Following filter creation, they need to know how to share filters, and create shared dashboards and subscriptions. Jira Cloud administrators also need to know how to perform bulk updates from filters, and the potential impacts of using th

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System Administration 9% Jira Cloud administrators need to understand how to create and manage global configurations, including look and feel options, user default settings, links, and time tracking. They must also configure statuses, resolutions, and priorities and understand the impact of modifying those items. Finally, Jira Cloud administrators must know how to import and export data, including creating and restoring site backups. 


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
settings
Impact of updating user default settings on existing objects
How to modify the Default dashboard

bConfigure attachments, issue links, app links, and 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 statutes, 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 are archived projects handled during imports from backup
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