- What Domain 8 Actually Covers
- Domain Weight, Exam Format, and What That Means for You
- Atlassian Marketplace Administration
- Managing Apps: Installation, Licensing, and Security
- Audit Logs, Site Health, and Diagnostic Tools
- Integrations, REST API, and Webhooks
- Fitting Domain 8 Into Your ACP-120 Study Plan
- How Domain 8 Questions Are Written on the ACP-120
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Domain 8 carries 5-10% of the ACP-120 exam weight - roughly 4 to 8 of up to 75 questions.
- Marketplace app installation, licensing, permissions, and security reviews are the highest-value sub-topics in this domain.
- ACP-120 exam registration costs approximately $249-$250 USD plus applicable tax via Atlassian University and Certiverse (as of 2026).
- Audit log interpretation is tested alongside app administration - both appear in scenario-based question formats.
What Domain 8 Actually Covers
Domain 8 - Administering and Extending Jira - is the smallest domain on the ACP-120 exam by weight, sitting at 5-10% of the total score. That size, however, does not mean it is simple or ignorable. The domain covers the full lifecycle of how a Jira Cloud administrator extends a site beyond its out-of-the-box functionality: installing and managing apps from the Atlassian Marketplace, reviewing and interpreting audit logs, using Jira's built-in diagnostic tools, configuring webhooks, and understanding where REST API access fits within Jira administration.
For candidates reading the ACP-120 Domain 8: Administering and Extending Jira Study Guide 2026, the critical framing is this: extension and integration are not treated as developer topics on the ACP-120. They are treated as administrative responsibilities. The exam tests whether you - as a Jira Cloud admin - can evaluate an app before installation, understand the permissions an app requests, manage its licensing, and investigate its impact on site behavior after deployment.
Domain Weight, Exam Format, and What That Means for You
The ACP-120 exam contains up to 75 questions, runs 180 minutes, and uses multiple-choice, multiple-response, and scenario/configuration-reasoning item types. The passing score is 63%. With Domain 8 representing 5-10% of the exam, you should expect it to produce roughly 4 to 8 questions. That is not enough questions to pass or fail alone - but it is enough to swing a borderline attempt in either direction.
The exam is offered through Atlassian University. Since Atlassian transitioned credential exams to Certiverse in 2026, registration and delivery both run through that platform. The fee is approximately $249-$250 USD plus applicable tax. Certification operates on Atlassian's 24-month renewal cycle.
Before diving into Domain 8 specifics, it is worth reviewing the ACP-120 Exam Prerequisites and Experience Requirements 2026 to calibrate your baseline. No formal prerequisite is listed, but the exam is clearly designed for experienced Jira Cloud administrators with hands-on product, project, permission, workflow, and scheme administration experience. If you have never navigated the Manage Apps screen in a Jira Cloud site, Domain 8 material will feel abstract.
| ACP-120 Domain | Weight | Relative Study Priority |
|---|---|---|
| Domain 3: Product and Project Access and Permissions | 30-35% | Highest - anchor your entire prep here |
| Domain 5: Issue Types, Fields and Screens | 15-20% | High - significant return on study time |
| Domain 4: General Project Configuration | 10-15% | High - foundational project setup knowledge |
| Domain 1: User Features | 10-15% | Moderate - tie to practical user workflows |
| Domain 8: Administering and Extending Jira | 5-10% | Moderate - high precision required despite low weight |
| Domain 2: Configuring Global Settings and User Communications | 5-10% | Lower - focused scope, study alongside Domain 8 |
| Domain 6: Workflows and Automation | 5-10% | Lower - concentrate on admin concepts not builder syntax |
| Domain 7: Notifications and Email | 5-10% | Lower - narrow scope, pair with Domain 2 |
Atlassian Marketplace Administration
The Atlassian Marketplace is central to Domain 8. Jira Cloud organizations routinely extend functionality with third-party apps - think time tracking tools, advanced roadmaps alternatives, reporting dashboards, or document generation plugins. The ACP-120 tests whether an administrator understands how to evaluate, install, and govern these apps, not just how to click a button.
What the Exam Expects You to Know About the Marketplace
- The difference between Atlassian-built apps, Atlassian Partner-built apps, and community apps - and how trust tier affects installation decisions
- How to locate an app's Marketplace listing and review its permissions, data access claims, and privacy policy before installation
- What the Marketplace's Cloud Fortified and Cloud Security Participant designations mean for enterprise customers
- How free trials work versus paid subscriptions, and how app licensing ties to Jira user tiers
- The difference between user-installable and administrator-only app installation in a Jira Cloud site
Domain 8: Marketplace App Evaluation
Before installing any Marketplace app in a production environment, an administrator must review its requested scopes, data residency implications, and security profile. The ACP-120 tests the decision-making process, not just the mechanics of installation.
- Review app scopes: read, write, admin access to Jira data
- Check data residency - is the app's data stored within your Atlassian region?
- Confirm Cloud Fortified status for enterprise-grade reliability requirements
- Understand how app user counts map to your subscription tier billing
Managing Apps: Installation, Licensing, and Security
Once you move past evaluation, Domain 8 covers the ongoing administrative tasks around apps already running in your Jira Cloud instance. This includes lifecycle management - enabling, disabling, and uninstalling apps - as well as understanding how app licensing affects your Atlassian subscription and how to respond if an app creates unexpected behavior.
Installation and Configuration
The Manage Apps section of Jira Cloud settings (accessible from the Administration console) is the primary interface. Administrators can view all installed apps, check their version, see their enabled/disabled status, and access configuration panels. For the ACP-120, you need to understand what happens to Jira data and configurations when an app is disabled versus uninstalled - a common scenario question pattern.
App Licensing Mechanics
Jira Cloud app licensing typically mirrors the host product's user tier. A 500-user Jira license means you are billed for apps at the 500-user tier, regardless of how many users actively engage with the app. Administrators need to understand this because license cost questions and approval workflows are real administrative scenarios - and the exam reflects that reality.
Key Takeaway
When an app is uninstalled from a Jira Cloud site, its data may be retained briefly by the vendor depending on their data retention policy - but Jira-native configurations created by the app (custom fields, workflow post-functions, etc.) may leave orphaned records. Understanding this distinction is directly testable in Domain 8 scenario questions.
Security and Permission Scopes
Apps in Jira Cloud operate under an OAuth 2.0 scope model. An app that requests write:jira-work can create and modify issues on behalf of users. An app requesting manage:jira-configuration can alter project and global configurations. Knowing what these scopes mean - and when a security-conscious administrator should reject an app requesting overly broad scopes - is precisely the kind of judgment the ACP-120 tests in its scenario items.
Audit Logs, Site Health, and Diagnostic Tools
Jira Cloud provides an Audit Log accessible from the site administration panel. This log records configuration changes: permission scheme modifications, workflow edits, user role assignments, and - critically for Domain 8 - app installations and uninstallations. The ACP-120 includes scenario questions where you are presented with a symptom (e.g., users suddenly lost access to a project) and asked to identify the likely cause. Reading the audit log is a primary diagnostic pathway.
What Audit Log Entries Typically Record
- Who made a configuration change (user account, timestamp)
- What was changed (scheme name, field configuration, app status)
- The before and after state where applicable
- App installation and removal events
Beyond the audit log, Jira Cloud provides site health checks and usage analytics that administrators use to monitor their instance. While deep performance tuning is out of scope for ACP-120 (this is Cloud, not Data Center), understanding what Jira's built-in health and usage tools surface - and when to engage Atlassian Support versus resolving an issue through configuration - is within scope.
Integrations, REST API, and Webhooks
Domain 8 extends into how Jira Cloud connects with external systems. The ACP-120 does not test API programming, but it does test administrative understanding of the tools that make integrations possible.
REST API Access Tokens
Jira Cloud's REST API is accessed via API tokens, which individual users generate from their Atlassian account settings. Administrators need to understand that API tokens carry the permissions of the generating user - if a user has project admin rights, their API token can exercise those rights. This creates a security consideration: administrators should know how API token usage is governed in their organization and what Atlassian Access (now part of Atlassian Guard) provides in terms of API token visibility and revocation.
Webhooks
Jira Cloud supports system-level webhooks that fire on issue, project, and user events. An administrator configures a webhook URL, selects the events to trigger it, and optionally applies a JQL filter to scope which issues generate payloads. For the ACP-120, understand the administrative mechanics: where webhooks are configured, what events are available, and what the JQL filter field does. You are not tested on the receiving application's code.
Domain 8: Integration Administration Topics
Administrators must understand integration tooling without being application developers. The ACP-120 tests configuration and governance decisions, not programming logic.
- API tokens: user-generated, carry user permissions, not admin-issued
- System webhooks: configured in global settings, JQL-scoped, event-driven
- Atlassian Guard (formerly Atlassian Access): centralized token governance, SCIM provisioning, SSO
- Application links: connecting Jira Cloud to Confluence Cloud or other Atlassian products
You can reinforce your understanding of these topics by taking scenario-based practice questions at our ACP-120 practice test platform, which includes Domain 8 items covering Marketplace decisions, audit log interpretation, and webhook configuration scenarios.
Fitting Domain 8 Into Your ACP-120 Study Plan
Because Domain 8 carries only 5-10% of the exam weight, it should not anchor your study schedule - but it also should not be studied in isolation or left to the final days. The most efficient approach ties Domain 8 to the domains it naturally connects with.
Foundation: Domains 3 and 5 (highest weight)
- Master permission schemes, project roles, and issue security (Domain 3)
- Work through issue types, custom fields, field configurations, and screen schemes (Domain 5)
- These two domains together represent 45-55% of your exam score
Mid-weight Domains: 1, 4, and 6
- User features and project configuration (Domains 1 and 4)
- Workflow states, transitions, and automation rules (Domain 6)
- Note how workflow post-functions connect to Domain 8 app-installed behaviors
Remaining Domains: 2, 7, and 8
- Global settings, announcement banners, and user communications (Domain 2)
- Notification schemes and email configuration (Domain 7)
- Marketplace administration, audit logs, webhooks, and API tokens (Domain 8)
- Study Domains 2, 7, and 8 together - they share administrative console territory
Full-Length Practice and Gap Analysis
- Complete timed full-length practice exams on our practice test platform
- Identify which domains produce the most errors - likely Domain 3 for most candidates
- For Domain 8, review any Marketplace security or audit log questions you missed
How Domain 8 Questions Are Written on the ACP-120
The ACP-120 uses multiple-choice, multiple-response, and scenario/configuration-reasoning items. Domain 8 leans heavily toward scenario items because the domain is fundamentally about administrative judgment, not memorized facts. Here is what that looks like in practice.
Typical Domain 8 Scenario Structures
App installation decision scenarios: You are given a business requirement (e.g., "a team needs time tracking at the issue level") and asked which approach best serves the need - a native Jira feature, a specific Marketplace app category, or a custom workflow. The correct answer usually hinges on whether you understand what Jira Cloud natively provides versus what requires an app.
Audit log diagnosis scenarios: You are presented with a user complaint ("I can no longer see issues in the Finance project") and a partial audit log extract. You must identify which log entry explains the change and what an administrator should do next. These questions frequently connect back to permission scheme changes from Domain 3.
Webhook and integration configuration scenarios: You are given an integration requirement ("trigger a Slack notification when a high-priority bug is created in the PLATFORM project") and asked which Jira configuration satisfies it. You must distinguish between a webhook with a JQL filter, an automation rule, or an app-based integration - and understand when each is the appropriate tool.
Practicing these scenario formats before exam day is essential. The ACP-120 practice test platform includes scenario-style Domain 8 questions that mirror the configuration-reasoning format you will encounter on exam day through Certiverse.
Frequently Asked Questions
Domain 8 carries a 5-10% weight on the ACP-120, which has up to 75 questions. That translates to approximately 4 to 8 questions from this domain. The exact number varies by exam form, but you should prepare for up to 8 questions covering Marketplace administration, audit logs, webhooks, and API access.
The ACP-120 is an administration exam, not a developer exam. Domain 8 tests your understanding of how API tokens work, what permissions they carry, and how Jira webhooks are configured - not how to write API calls or handle HTTP responses in application code. No programming syntax is required.
Atlassian Guard concepts - particularly around centralized API token management and identity governance - are relevant to Domain 8's integration and security topics. However, in-depth Atlassian Guard administration is primarily a separate product topic. For the ACP-120, focus on what Atlassian Guard enables for Jira Cloud security rather than its standalone configuration.
Registration occurs through Atlassian University, which transitioned credential exam delivery to Certiverse in 2026. The exam fee is approximately $249-$250 USD plus applicable tax. After purchasing through Atlassian University, you schedule and sit the exam via the Certiverse platform. The certification is valid for 24 months under Atlassian's renewal policy.
Study Domain 3 (Product and Project Access and Permissions, 30-35%) first - it is the single largest domain on the exam and foundational to understanding how apps and integrations interact with permissions. Return to Domain 8 in the final week of preparation alongside Domains 2 and 7, which share similar weight and administrative console territory. See the study timeline in this article for the recommended sequence.
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