
Atlassian certification overview
Outline
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:

Learn Jira project administration with Atlassian University
A Jira Project Administrator may be a: - product owner - product manager - project manager - scrum master - developer lead - power user assigned project-level permissions in Jira This learning path is designed for team leaders who configure Jira projects to match a team's processes, and work with Jira administrators global changes are required.

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ACP-620 Managing Jira Projects for Cloud Certification
Get certified in Managing Jira Projects for Cloud. ACP Certification in Managing Jira Projects for Cloud covers the skills needed to configure and automate Jira Software's Scrum and Kanban templates.


ACP-610 Certification Exam: Managing Jira Projects for Data Center and Server
Get certified in Managing Jira Projects. ACP Certification in Managing Jira Projects for Data Center and Server covers the skills needed to configure and automate Jira Software's Scrum and Kanban templates.

New! Atlassian Cloud Organization Admin:
This certification covers the skills needed to configure and manage Atlassian Cloud sites and products to support their organizations. You’ll show that you can administer users and groups across multiple Cloud organizations, sites, & products, manage product access, configure user access settings, and more. This certification is intended for the first 6–12 months of administering an Atlassian Cloud organization.
Get started with the Atlassian Cloud Organization Admin learning path:

Learn to manage your Cloud organization or site
Learn to manage your Cloud organization or site This learning path is designed to support Organization Administrators who want to learn how to manage users, groups, products, product access, billing, and much more.

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Stand out in your career as an Atlassian Certified Organization Admin
Get certified as an Atlassian Cloud Organization Admin. This certification from Atlassian University covers the skills needed to configure and manage Atlassian Cloud sites and products to support their organizations. You'll receive both a voucher to take your exam and the Exam Success course - a comprehensive study companion to succeed on the exam.

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:

Get on the right Jira Service Management learning path with Atlassian University
Jira Service Project Administrators manage, customize, and configure Jira Service Management from within the Jira user interface.

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ACP-420 Certification Exam: Managing Jira Service Projects for Cloud
Get certified as a Jira Service Project Manager for Cloud. ACP Certification in Managing Jira Service Projects covers the skills needed to configure and and administer Jira service projects for your teams and customers.

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

Learn Jira administration with Atlassian University
Jira Administrators are responsible for configuring Jira Software, Jira Core, and/or Jira Service Management, plus related apps and third-party tools. They manage global settings including users and groups, roles, global permissions, and schemes. Additionally, they create projects, set up project permissions, and assign Jira Project Administrators.

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ACP-120 Certification Exam: Jira Administrator for Cloud
Get certified as a Jira Administrator for Cloud. ACP Certification in Jira Administration for Cloud covers the skills needed to configure and manage Jira Cloud to support any development or business team.

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:

Learn Jira administration with Atlassian University
Jira Administrators are responsible for configuring Jira Software, Jira Core, and/or Jira Service Management, plus related apps and third-party tools. They manage global settings including users and groups, roles, global permissions, and schemes. Additionally, they create projects, set up project permissions, and assign Jira Project Administrators.

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

ACP-100 Certification Exam: Jira Administrator for Data Center and Server
Get certified as a Jira Administrator for Data Center and Server. ACP Certification in Jira Administration for Data Center and Server covers the skills needed to configure and manage Jira to support any development or business team.

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:

ACP-610 Certification Exam: Managing Jira Projects for Data Center and Server
Get certified in Managing Jira Projects. ACP Certification in Managing Jira Projects for Data Center and Server covers the skills needed to configure and automate Jira Software's Scrum and Kanban templates.

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.

Earn an elite Atlassian Certification standing with Atlassian Certified Expert
Atlassian Certified Experts are respected for their broad Atlassian skills and the value they bring to organizations and teams. They demonstrate expertise at the highest level. There's no better way to show your proficiency across Atlassian solutions than through this highly-regarded designation.



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.


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This letter can help you make the case for funding Atlassian certifications: