Atlassian certification overview

Give your career a boost with an Atlassian certification

Earn a certification to validate your expertise and strengthen your credibility with your team, your employer, and your industry peers.

What’s involved? For most, certification will require skilling up with Atlassian University courses, getting hands-on experience with Atlassian’s tools, then studying for and passing a certification exam.

With an Atlassian certification, you can:

• Expand your career opportunities by opening open doors inside and outside of your organization

• Optimize your tools and practices to ensure that your team is doing its best work

• Get recognized as an expert with authority in your field

Managing Jira Projects (ACP-610 and ACP-620):

Prove your skills in optimizing Jira Software for your development teams. Topics include configuring projects and boards, customizing workflows, managing project permissions, and more. This certification is intended for Jira project administrators, scrum masters, project leads, and board administrators.

Get started with the Jira Project Administrator learning path:

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Managing Jira Service Projects (ACP-420):

Demonstrate your ability to configure and administer Jira Service Management projects, applying best practices to optimize your customers' service experiences. Topics include configuring and troubleshooting request types, queues, SLAs and notifications, managing access for customers and team members, configuring knowledge bases, and more. This Certification is intended for experienced Jira service project administrators.

Get started with the Jira Service Management learning path:

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Jira Administration for Cloud (ACP-120):

Demonstrate your ability to create and manage a healthy Jira Cloud instance, scale Jira for software or business teams of any size, manage global and project permissions, customize schemes and workflows, and configure complex automation. This Certification is intended for experienced Jira administrators.

Get started with the Jira Administrator learning path

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Jira Administration for Data Center and Server (ACP-100):

Demonstrate your ability to create and maintain a healthy Jira Data Center or Server instance, scale Jira for software or business teams of any size, manage global and project permissions, and customize schemes and workflows. This Certification is intended for experienced Jira administrators.

Start with the Jira Administrator learning path:

Ready to take the next step? Review the certification details:

Project Administration in Jira Server (ACP-600):

This certification was retired on 15 November 2021. The certification will be recognized until 2 February 2024.

• Are you currently certified with ACP-600? Learn more about pathways to upgrading your certification

This certification has been replaced with:

Atlassian Certified Expert

Atlassian Certified Experts are the best of the best, respected for their unmatched Atlassian skills and the value they bring to organizations and teams. There is no higher designation offered by Atlassian.

How to earn an Atlassian certification

→ Learn how to get certified with Atlassian University.

Maintain your certification

Your certification is automatically valid for two years (24 months). If you wish to extend your certification, check out the page linked below.

→ Learn how to maintain your certification

• Certification and credential policies

• Certification FAQ

• Atlassian certification portal 

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