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Skills this practice test covers
- Tell company-managed projects from team-managed projects and pick the right one.
- Create work items of the right type, from epics and stories to sub-tasks.
- Move work through workflow statuses on Scrum and Kanban boards.
- Find work with filters and basic JQL, and follow it on dashboards.
- Use @mentions, Share and watchers to keep the right people informed.
- Explain what Rovo Search, Chat and Agents do inside Jira.
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ACA-900 exam content
5 domains · 26 topics · 100 questions
Basic Concepts21 questions
This domain sets the vocabulary of Jira and Agile. Candidates explain what Jira Software is for, compare company-managed and team-managed projects, and know the issue types, Scrum and Kanban, backlogs and key fields.
Skills tested
- Choose between a company-managed and a team-managed project for a team.
- Place epics, stories, tasks, bugs and sub-tasks in the issue hierarchy.
- Compare Scrum and Kanban, including Scrum roles and ceremonies.
- Tell a product backlog from a sprint backlog.
- Tell Fix Version from Affects Version, and Labels from Components.
Questions by topic
- Jira Fundamentals6
- Project Types3
- Issue Types4
- Agile Frameworks4
- Backlog Concepts3
- Key Jira Terminology1
Jira Navigation14 questions
Candidates find their way around Jira Cloud. They move between projects, boards and dashboards, manage their profile and notifications, and find work with filters and basic JQL.
Skills tested
- Use the main navigation and global search to reach projects, boards and dashboards.
- Switch between the board, backlog and timeline views of a project.
- Set personal notification preferences from the profile menu.
- Find personal work with the Assigned to Me filter and save a search as a filter.
- Read a simple JQL query and say what it returns.
Questions by topic
- Global Navigation3
- Dashboards3
- Finding and Filtering Issues4
- Personal Settings and Profile4
Rovo Basics4 questions
Rovo is Atlassian's AI-powered assistant. This small domain asks what Rovo does, how to open it in Jira Cloud, and how it respects workspace permissions.
Skills tested
- Describe Rovo's core capabilities: Search, Chat and Agents.
- Open Rovo inside Jira Cloud and give it a basic prompt.
- Explain that Rovo shows only content the user already has permission to see.
Questions by topic
- What is Rovo3
- Using Rovo in Jira1
Issue Lifecycle, Workflow, and Boards24 questions
A workflow is the path an issue takes from creation to completion. Candidates map statuses and transitions to board columns, run sprints on Scrum boards, and manage continuous flow and WIP limits on Kanban boards.
Skills tested
- Name the three status categories: To Do, In Progress and Done.
- Map board columns to workflow statuses, and explain why an issue has the same status on every board.
- Plan, start and complete a sprint from the backlog.
- Use WIP limits to spot bottlenecks on a Kanban board.
- Explain that a board is built on a filter, and adjust its columns and swimlanes.
Questions by topic
- Workflows7
- Boards6
- Issue Lifecycle in Scrum4
- Issue Lifecycle in Kanban4
- Board Configuration Basics3
Working with Work Items37 questions
The largest domain is the daily work itself. Candidates create, edit, link, clone, move and delete issues, manage sub-tasks, collaborate through comments, @mentions and Share, and search with saved filters and JQL.
Skills tested
- Create an issue from quick create, the full form, the backlog or the board.
- Convert an issue to a sub-task, and a sub-task back to a standalone issue.
- Link issues with relations such as blocks, is blocked by and duplicates.
- Choose between an @mention and Share, and know which one leaves a record on the issue.
- Change many issues at once with bulk operations.
Questions by topic
- Creating Issues4
- Sub-tasks and Issue Hierarchy4
- Issue Operations3
- Collaboration Features6
- Issue Fields and Metadata8
- Bulk Operations3
- Issue Attachments and Rich Content4
- Editing and Updating Issues4
- Searching and Filtering Issues1
Requirements
- No formal prerequisites: anyone can book the exam.
- Recommended: regular use of Jira Software Cloud on a team that works in Scrum or Kanban.
- Recommended: the free certification prep material that Atlassian publishes for this exam.
About the ACA-900 exam
Everyday Jira users take ACA-900 to earn the Atlassian Certified Associate - Jira Essentials certification. The exam checks that they can create, update and track work in Jira Software Cloud. Working with Work Items is the largest domain, and workflows and boards come next. Jira basics, navigation and Rovo make up the rest. Rovo is Atlassian's AI-powered assistant.
Like the exam, the PlanetCert practice test gives the most weight to Working with Work Items, then to workflows and boards. The explanations help most with look-alike features, such as an @mention versus Share, or a Fix Version versus an Affects Version. Flashcard mode suits the issue types and key fields, from Epic to Story Points. Brainy AI Assistant can explain why a board column maps to a status, or turn a plain-language search into simple JQL.
How to earn the certification
- Earns
- Atlassian Certified Associate - Jira EssentialsAssociate
The certification is valid for two years from the date it is issued.
- After
- ACP-620 Managing Jira Projects for Cloud
The professional exam for configuring and running Jira projects.
- ACP-120 Jira Administration for Cloud
The professional exam for administering Jira Cloud across a whole site.
- ACP-620 Managing Jira Projects for Cloud
How to prepare for ACA-900
- 1
Open a free Jira Cloud site
Create a free Jira Cloud site and set up one Scrum project and one Kanban project. Every task in the syllabus can then be tried on real screens.
- 2
Run one sprint from start to finish
Fill a backlog with epics, stories and sub-tasks, plan a sprint, move cards through the columns and complete it. Watch how each column maps to a workflow status.
- 3
Practise every work item action
Working with Work Items is the largest domain. Create, edit, clone, link, move, convert and bulk-change issues, and compare an @mention with Share on the same issue.
- 4
Turn searches into saved filters
Search by status, assignee, type and priority, save each search as a filter, and build a board or a dashboard gadget from one. Then read the JQL that Jira wrote for it.
- 5
Check Rovo, then sit a timed run
Open Rovo in Jira once and try Search and Chat on the sample project. Then take the ACA-900 practice test in Timed mode and review each miss with Brainy AI Assistant.
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Who ACA-900 is for
- Team members who start using Jira Software Cloud for their daily work.
- Scrum and Kanban team members who want proof of their Jira skills.
- Jira users who plan to work toward Managing Jira Projects for Cloud or Jira Administration for Cloud.
Typical job titles: Project coordinator · Scrum team member · Business analyst · Software developer · Support analyst · Junior project manager
ACA-900 glossary
18 terms from the exam objectives and the vendor's official material, each defined in a sentence.
- Affects Version
- The release in which a bug was found, as opposed to the release that will fix it.
- Company-managed projects
- Projects that Jira administrators configure with shared schemes, so many teams can work the same way.
- Components
- Formal sub-sections of a project, such as a product area, used to group its issues.
- Epic
- A large body of work that spans several sprints and is split into stories, tasks and bugs.
- Filter
- A saved search that can be reused, shared and used as the source of a board.
- Fix Version
- The release in which a fix or feature is planned to ship.
- Gadgets
- Widgets on a dashboard that each show one piece of project information, such as a chart or a list.
- Jira Query Language (JQL)
- Jira's search language for finding issues by their fields, such as status, assignee or priority.
- Labels
- Informal tags that anyone can add to issues, and that work across projects.
- Rovo Agents
- AI helpers in Rovo that are set up to handle specific kinds of tasks in Atlassian products.
- Sprint burndown
- A chart of the work left in a sprint over time, used to see whether the team will finish.
- Status categories
- The three groups that every status belongs to: To Do, In Progress and Done.
- Story Points
- A relative estimate of the effort an issue needs, used to plan how much work fits in a sprint.
- Sub-task
- A smaller piece of work under a parent issue, at the bottom of the issue hierarchy.
- Swimlanes
- Horizontal rows on a board that group cards, for example by assignee or by epic.
- Team-managed projects
- Projects that the team configures for itself, with simpler settings that do not affect other projects.
- Watchers
- Users who follow an issue and get a notification when it changes.
- WIP limits
- Limits on how many issues may sit in a board column at once, which expose bottlenecks in a Kanban flow.
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