Maintain your certification
Outline
Atlassian Certifications are valid for 24 months.
To keep your Certification active, simply earn a related Atlassian Pro Skills Badge before the suspension date. Adding a Pro Skills Badge will extend your Certification for 24 months from the activity completion date. See details below. You cannot extend your Certification by re-taking the exam.
If your Certification expires, then you can retake the original underlying exam to re-earn the Certification. The exam cannot be re-taken during the Active or Suspended periods, it can only be re-taken after expiration.
To keep all your Pro Skills Badges active, simply earn a new one every 24 months.
Certifications and their related Pro Skills Badges
ACP-JA Jira Administrator for Data Center and Server
Maintain with these Pro Skills Badges:
ACP-JCA Jira Administrator for Cloud
ACP-MJCP Managing Jira Projects for Cloud
ACP-MJDP Managing Jira Projects for Data Center
ACP-MJSP Managing Jira Service Projects for Cloud
Retiring Certifications & How to Upgrade
ACP-JPA Jira Project Administrator for Data Center and Server
If you maintained your ACP-JPA Certification in Active status until 1 December 2021, you no longer need to maintain it*, but we encourage you to upgrade to a Data Center Certification by earning the new Pro Skills Badge:
Start with the new Skillbuilder course Managing Agile Boards and Reports, and its accompanying Pro Skills Badge Quiz (USD $20).
By taking the course and passing the quiz (both are required), you will earn the new Managing Jira Projects for Data Center (ACP-MJDP) Certification, which replaced ACP-JPA in 2021.
*After 2 February 2022, Atlassian will extend your ACP-JPA Certification until 2 February 2024.
ACP-JSW Agile Development with Jira Software
If you maintained your ACP-JSW Certification in Active status until 1 December 2021, you no longer need to maintain it*, but we encourage you to upgrade to a Data Center Certification by earning the new Pro Skills Badge:
- Start with the new Skillbuilder course, Extended Project Administration in Jira Data Center, and its accompanying Pro Skills Badge quiz (USD $20).
- By taking the course and passing the quiz (both are required), you will earn the new Managing Jira Projects for Data Center (ACP-MJDP) Certification, which replaced ACP-JSW in 2021.
*After 2 February 2022, Atlassian will extend your ACP-JSW Certification until 2 February 2024.
ACP-JSD Jira Service Desk Server Administrator
If you maintained your ACP-JSD Certification in Active status until 1 December 2021, you no longer need to maintain it. After 2 February 2022, Atlassian will extend your ACP-JSD Certification until 2 February 2024.
ACP-CA Confluence Administrator for Data Center and Server
No maintenance is needed for this Certification, which will retire in February 2024. The new Confluence credential, applicable to both Cloud and Data Center, is APB-CSA Confluence Space Administration Pro Skills Badge.
ACP-SA System Administrator (Server)
No maintenance is needed for this Certification, which will retire in February 2024.