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 Certified Associate, Confluence Essentials
The Confluence Essentials certification validates your ability to use Confluence to organize and enhance your team's work and collaborate effectively. Designed for current and future Confluence users, this credential proves you understand how to create, organize, and collaborate in Confluence. Earning it demonstrates your practical skills and supports career growth.
DeliveryAtlassian University
Free questions206
Content last reviewed 30 July 2026 · Up to date
The certification
What ACA-920 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.
4domains
8objectives
62concepts
What it is
What this certification is
What it validates, who it is written for, and the experience it assumes.
About this certification
The Confluence Essentials certification validates your ability to use Confluence to organize and enhance your team's work and collaborate effectively. It is designed for current and future Confluence users who want to power their career growth by proving they understand how to create, organize, and collaborate in Confluence.
Earning this certification demonstrates that you have the practical skills needed to use Confluence successfully, including how access works, creating content, and managing content. It is an industry-recognized credential that is quick and affordable to earn, and it is stackable for work-relevant designations.
Who it’s for
This certification is for current and future Confluence users who want to prove their ability to create, organize, and collaborate in Confluence. It is ideal for individuals who use Confluence in their daily work and want to demonstrate their skills to employers. Whether you are a team member, project manager, or anyone who relies on Confluence for collaboration, this certification validates your practical knowledge and helps you stand out in the job market.
Recommended experience
Atlassian recommends combining documentation review, independent study, real-world experience, and free on-demand training to prepare for the exam. Review Confluence documentation and best practices; Gain hands-on experience using Confluence in a real-world environment; Complete Atlassian's free on-demand training courses; Participate in community study sessions and peer learning
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
Confluence Terms and Navigation
- Understand Confluence terms
- Navigate Confluence
Creating Pages and Basic Editing
- Create Confluence pages
- Perform basic page editing
Working with Pages
- Organize and manage pages
- Collaborate on pages
Advanced Features
- Use advanced Confluence features
- Work with macros and templates
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-920
CertificationAtlassian Certified Associate, Confluence Essentials
DeliveryAtlassian University
Certification levelAssociate
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 Certified Associate, Confluence Essentials
Credential earnedAtlassian Certified Associate, Confluence Essentials Associate level 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
How does the Confluence Essentials certification relate to other Atlassian certifications?
The Confluence Essentials certification is part of the Atlassian Certified Associate program, which includes other entry-level certifications like Jira Essentials and Managing Jira Service Projects for Cloud. These certifications are stackable and can be combined for work-relevant designations.
Is there a hands-on or lab component in the ACA-920 exam?
The official exam details do not specify a hands-on or lab component. The exam focuses on practical knowledge of Confluence, and preparation includes real-world experience and on-demand training.
What is the retake policy for the ACA-920 exam?
Atlassian does not publish a specific retake policy for this exam on the official page. For detailed retake information, candidates should contact Atlassian University support.
Are there any discounts or vouchers available for the ACA-920 exam?
Atlassian does not publish discount or voucher information on the official exam page. Candidates should check the Atlassian University website or contact support for current offers.
What job roles does the Confluence Essentials certification map to?
The certification is designed for current and future Confluence users, including team members, project managers, and anyone who uses Confluence for collaboration. It validates skills in creating, organizing, and collaborating in Confluence.
Can I recertify by passing a different Atlassian exam?
Atlassian does not publish information about recertifying through other exams. The renewal model for Atlassian certifications requires periodic renewal, but specific details are not available on the official page.
Is the ACA-920 exam available in regions outside the United States?
Atlassian University offers online testing, which is generally available globally. For specific regional availability, candidates should check the Atlassian University website or contact support.
Information freshness · Content last reviewed on 2026-07-30 Up to date
Practice free questions 206 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.
4domains
8objectives
62concepts
43free 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
1Confluence Terms and Navigation59 questions
2Creating Pages and Basic Editing50 questions
3Working with Pages60 questions
4Advanced Features37 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 Confluence terms7 pagesOpen →
Free in front of it
34 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
206 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.
206questions
43pages
8objectives
Freealways
Browse by domain
Every objective, and every page range, is a link — so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
1Confluence Terms and Navigation59 questions
2Creating Pages and Basic Editing50 questions
3Working with Pages60 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.
62concepts
206free 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
62concepts 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, 62 concepts written under them, and free questions against every one. When Atlassian changes the outline, this page changes with it.
8objectives on the outline→62concepts written→206free 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.