You can see it againUnder pressure people bring back shapes and positions long after the wording has gone.
Picture superiority · Shepard 1967, Standing 1973
ATLASSIANAtlassian Cloud Foundations (ACA-915)
The Atlassian Cloud Foundations certification validates your understanding of the Atlassian Cloud suite, including Jira, Confluence, and Jira Service Management. Designed for professionals who work with or manage Atlassian Cloud environments, it confirms your grasp of cloud fundamentals, architecture, security, and administration. Earning this credential demonstrates that you can efficiently configure, manage, and secure Atlassian Cloud products, making you a more effective contributor to your team and organization.
Exam formatMultiple choice
DeliveryAtlassian University
Free questions171
Content last reviewed 30 July 2026 · Up to date
The certification
What ACA-915 proves, and what it asks of you
What this certification covers, who it is written for, and what the exam itself looks like on the day.
3domains
8objectives
38concepts
Freeexam fee
What it is
What this certification is
What it validates, who it is written for, and the experience it assumes.
About this certification
The Atlassian Cloud Foundations certification (ACA-915) is an entry-level credential that validates your knowledge of the Atlassian Cloud ecosystem. It covers the core concepts of cloud architecture, security, and administration across Atlassian's suite of products, including Jira, Confluence, and Jira Service Management. This certification is ideal for individuals who are new to Atlassian Cloud or who want to formalize their foundational understanding.
By earning this certification, you demonstrate that you can navigate the Atlassian Cloud platform with confidence, understand how to manage users and permissions, and apply best practices for security and governance. The certification also serves as a stepping stone for more advanced Atlassian certifications, helping you build a career path in Atlassian administration and consulting.
Who it’s for
This certification is for anyone who works with Atlassian Cloud products, including current cloud users, Atlassian partners, and individuals interested in learning how Cloud is managed. It is particularly relevant for professionals in roles such as Jira or Confluence administrators, project managers, and team leads who use Atlassian tools to drive collaboration and productivity. Whether you are new to Atlassian or have some experience, this certification helps you build a solid foundation in cloud concepts and Atlassian product knowledge, preparing you for more advanced certifications and career growth.
Recommended experience
No formal prerequisites, but hands-on experience with Atlassian Cloud products is recommended. Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, and Jira Service Management; Basic understanding of cloud concepts and architecture; Experience managing users and permissions in a cloud environment
The syllabus
What you’ll learn
Every domain and objective Atlassian measures, with the weight they carry on the exam.
The official Atlassian exam outline · checked 30 July 2026 · See the source
Cloud Subscriptions and User Management
- Understand licensing and subscription types
- Manage user roles
Atlassian Community and Support
- Navigate the Atlassian community
- Find help articles
- Raise support tickets
Cloud Products and Integrations
- Understand Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket
- Explain how Atlassian products work together
- Configure integrations across the Atlassian ecosystem
On the day
The exam itself
Everything Atlassian publishes about sitting it, and nothing we inferred.
Prerequisites
No mandatory prerequisites — this certification has no required predecessor exam or credential.
Exam codeACA-915
CertificationAtlassian Cloud Foundations (ACA-915)
Exam formatMultiple choice
DeliveryAtlassian University
LanguagesEnglish
PricingFree
After you pass
Where this credential goes next
The path Atlassian lays out, how the credential is kept, and where to book.
Step-by-step path to Atlassian Cloud Foundations (ACA-915)
Credential earnedAtlassian Cloud Foundations (ACA-915) Certification Lifecycle status
This certification is currently active and available. Atlassian maintains this certification to validate current skills and industry relevance.
Exam status: ActiveMaintained by Atlassian
Exam registration
Register for the exam through Atlassian University, Atlassian’s authorized testing partner.
Schedule your examVisit the official Atlassian certification page for exam policies and requirements.
View the official pageYour coach
And when you are serious, your coach Pip takes over
Your coach in the app reads what you have answered with the book closed and tells you one thing to do tonight. It will not count an answer you gave with the page open, and it will tell you when you are not ready.
See how the coach worksBefore you book
Questions people ask
Is the Atlassian Cloud Foundations certification free?
Yes, the ACA-915 exam is currently free. This was announced in the Atlassian Community and is part of Atlassian's effort to make certifications more accessible.
How does the ACA-915 relate to other Atlassian certifications?
The ACA-915 is a foundational certification that can serve as a stepping stone to more advanced certifications like ACP-120 (Jira Cloud Administrator) or ACP-620 (Jira Service Management Cloud). It is not a prerequisite for those exams, but it provides a solid base.
What is the format of the ACA-915 exam?
The exam is delivered online and consists of multiple-choice questions. The exact number of questions and duration are not published by Atlassian.
Are there any hands-on labs in the ACA-915 exam?
No, the ACA-915 exam is knowledge-based and does not include a hands-on lab component. It tests your understanding of Atlassian Cloud concepts and best practices.
What job roles does the Atlassian Cloud Foundations certification map to?
This certification is relevant for roles such as Jira or Confluence administrators, project managers, and team leads who use Atlassian Cloud products. It is also useful for Atlassian partners and consultants.
Can I take the ACA-915 exam if I have no prior Atlassian experience?
Yes, there are no prerequisites. However, Atlassian recommends hands-on experience with their Cloud products to increase your chances of passing.
Information freshness · Content last reviewed on 2026-07-30 Up to date
Practice free questions 171 questions, free, no account needed.
The curriculum
The whole exam, mapped and written
Every domain, every objective, and every concept Atlassian measures — each one written out.
3domains
8objectives
38concepts
37free pages
The domains, and what sits inside them
Every objective below is a page you can open and practise now, without an account.
The official Atlassian exam outline · checked 30 July 2026 · See the source
1Cloud Subscriptions and User Management33 questions
2Atlassian Community and Support64 questions
Not a table of contents
Every line on this map already opens
In front of every objective the practice pages are already there, free and without an account. This is one objective, opened.
Understand licensing and subscription types4 pagesOpen →
Free in front of it
18 questions on this objective, five to a page. Every range above is a real page, open now, with no account.
Reading the map is not the same as knowing the ground
The curriculum tells you what is on the exam. Proving you know it is a different job — and it is the one the closed-book run does.
Free questions
171 questions. No account, no card.
The whole bank is open. 5 questions to a page, every answer explained, and a discussion thread on each one.
171questions
37pages
8objectives
Freealways
Browse by domain
Every objective, and every page range, is a link — so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
1Cloud Subscriptions and User Management33 questions
2Atlassian Community and Support64 questions
3Cloud Products and Integrations74 questions
What a practice page gives you
1Five to a page
Short enough to finish, long enough to matter.
2Every answer explained
Not only which one is right — why the others are wrong.
3A discussion on each
Ask, answer, and vote. Every question has its own thread.
A question, and the idea behind it
Every question comes from a concept
These are not trivia. Each one is written against a concept in the book, so when you get one wrong there is somewhere to go and find out why.
The visual book
See it once. Carry it into the exam.
The pages shown here come from our AI-900 book — an example of how each concept is written in plain language and, where the idea needs one, drawn as a full page you can take in at a glance.
38concepts
171free questions
Why a picture, and not another paragraph
Three reasons, and each one is a real finding rather than a slogan.
You can see it againThe whole idea at onceWhere it starts, what happens in the middle, what comes out, and the mistake to avoid.
Multimedia principle · MayerThe look-alikes sit togetherThe pairs the exam tests are drawn side by side, so the difference is seen, not told.
Dual coding · PaivioWhat one page is made of
You are never asked to read a poster here — only to see how one is built. After that, every other page is legible at a glance.
1A numbered strip on top
The idea as a sequence, followed with a finger before a word is read.
2Panels for the parts
What it is, how the machine learns it, when it is the right tool.
3The trap, framed
The distinction the exam tests, given its own box instead of buried in prose.
4One line at the bottom
The sentence to carry into the exam room.
Open book, on purpose
Answer it with the picture beside you
This is the part that teaches. The illustration and the written explanation stay where they are while you work, so a scenario stops being a memory test and becomes something you can simply look at.
It teaches · it does not count
A smartphone uses AI to unlock when the owner looks at the camera. Which AI capability is being used?
AImage classification
BFacial recognition
COptical character recognition
DObject detection
Look at the five steps. Detect finds a face, align straightens it, encode turns it into numbers, search compares it with a stored face, and decide answers one question: is this the same person? Classification would only say “a face”. Detection would only draw a box. Neither decides whose.
Then the page shuts, and it starts counting
The same questions come back with the book closed — that run is the one that counts. After it, your coach picks one thing for tonight, sized to the time you have, and brings pages back before you lose them.
Testing effect · Roediger & Karpicke 2006 · spacing effect · Cepeda et al. 2006
Official resources
Straight from Atlassian
Where the exam is defined, scheduled and scored.
2official links
38concepts mapped
The source
Atlassian’s own pages
We link to them rather than repeat them, so nothing here goes stale behind them.
Checked against the source
Every objective on the official Atlassian outline already has questions here
We build from the official skills outline, not from a summary of it — 8 objectives, 38 concepts written under them, and free questions against every one. When Atlassian changes the outline, this page changes with it.
8objectives on the outline→38concepts written→171free questions
An official page tells you what will be asked. It cannot tell you what you will get right.
That is the only question worth answering the night before, and no link answers it. You answer it by taking the questions with the book closed, and seeing what comes back.