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10 free, exam-style Atlassian Certified Professional - Jira Administration for Cloud (ACP-120) practice questions with answers and explanations. No signup required. Work through them below, then take the full free ACP-120 practice test to study every exam domain.

The ACP-120 exam has 75 questions and runs 3 hours.

These 10 free ACP-120 questions are organized by exam domain, so you can see how each part of the Atlassian Certified Professional - Jira Administration for Cloud blueprint is tested. Reveal the answer and explanation under each question.

Domain 1: User Features (10-15%)

Question 1

An administrator needs to give a set of users permission to run bulk changes across the Jira site. In Jira's permission model, global permissions are granted to:

  1. Individual users
  2. Project roles
  3. Groups
  4. Issue security levels
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Correct answer: C - Groups

Question 2

After issue-level security is enabled on a company-managed project, the reporter of an issue suddenly can no longer see the issue they raised. What is the MOST likely cause?

  1. The issue's security level does not include the reporter
  2. The reporter no longer has the Browse Projects project permission for that project
  3. The issue security scheme has not yet been associated with the project
  4. The reporter must be added to the jira-administrators group to view secured issues
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Correct answer: A - The issue's security level does not include the reporter

Question 3

An admin manages 15 company-managed projects that should all share one permission scheme, but each project's lead must control who gets access in their own project. What should the permissions in the scheme be granted to?

  1. Named individual users, added per project
  2. The single jira-software-users group
  3. The 'Anyone' option so leads can manage visibility
  4. Project roles, with membership set per project
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Correct answer: D - Project roles, with membership set per project

Domain 2: Configuring Global Settings and User Communications (5-10%)

Question 4

A single team wants to set up and continuously reconfigure its own issue types, statuses, and workflow without involving a Jira administrator. Which project type best fits this requirement?

  1. A company-managed project using a dedicated set of shared schemes
  2. A company-managed project with the team granted project administrator access
  3. A team-managed project
  4. A Jira Service Management project with a custom request type
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Correct answer: C - A team-managed project

Domain 3: Product and Project Access and Permissions (30-35%)

Question 5

A new custom field has been created and added to the relevant screen, yet it does not appear when users create issues in one specific project. Configuration elsewhere is correct. What should the admin check FIRST?

  1. The notification scheme, to confirm the field triggers an event on creation
  2. The field's context, to confirm it applies to that project and issue type
  3. The user's Browse Projects permission for the project in the permission scheme
  4. The workflow scheme, to confirm the create transition is mapped for the issue type
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Correct answer: B - The field's context, to confirm it applies to that project and issue type

Question 6

In a company-managed project, an admin must make the 'Root Cause' field REQUIRED for Bug issues but keep it OPTIONAL for Story issues. Where is this behavior configured?

  1. In each issue type's context on the 'Root Cause' field, marking it required for Bugs
  2. In the issue type screen scheme, by mapping Bugs to a screen that forces the field
  3. In the field configuration applied to each issue type via the field configuration scheme
  4. In a workflow validator on the Bug create transition that rejects an empty field
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Correct answer: C - In the field configuration applied to each issue type via the field configuration scheme

Domain 4: General Project Configuration (10-15%)

Question 7

Issues sit in a 'Done' status, but a filter using 'resolution is EMPTY' still returns them as if they were open. What is the MOST likely cause?

  1. The 'Done' status is not mapped to the board's last column
  2. No post function sets the Resolution field on the transition into 'Done'
  3. The issues are in a team-managed project, where resolution does not exist
  4. The filter must use 'status = Done' because resolution cannot be queried in JQL
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Correct answer: B - No post function sets the Resolution field on the transition into 'Done'

Question 8

On a company-managed workflow transition, an admin wants to stop the transition from completing if a mandatory field has been left empty, showing the user an error. Which workflow component should be used?

  1. A condition, so the transition stays hidden from users until the field is filled in
  2. A post function, to populate the empty field automatically as the transition runs
  3. A workflow property, to flag the field as required for that particular transition
  4. A validator, to check the input and block the transition if it is invalid
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Correct answer: D - A validator, to check the input and block the transition if it is invalid

Domain 6: Workflows and Automation (5-10%)

Question 9

A project lead wants a filter that reliably returns every UNRESOLVED issue in project ABC, regardless of how individual status names are configured. Which JQL clause is correct?

  1. project = ABC AND resolution IS EMPTY
  2. project = ABC AND status != Done
  3. project = ABC AND status = Open
  4. project = ABC AND resolution = Unresolved
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Correct answer: A - project = ABC AND resolution IS EMPTY

Domain 7: Notifications and Email (5-10%)

Question 10

An admin renames the status 'In Review' to 'Code Review' inside one company-managed project's workflow. What is the impact on other projects that also use the 'In Review' status?

  1. Only the workflow that was edited changes; every other project keeps the name 'In Review'
  2. The status is renamed everywhere, because statuses are global objects shared across the site
  3. A separate 'Code Review' status is created automatically and the original 'In Review' is archived
  4. Other projects are unaffected unless they happen to share the very same workflow scheme
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Correct answer: B - The status is renamed everywhere, because statuses are global objects shared across the site

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