🚀 6 Atlassian Associate Certifications in 3 Weeks (All in March 2026) 🔥

[Mark Sayo]

Sharing a big win from March 2026 🙌

I challenged myself to finish all Atlassian Associate certifications within the month and somehow completed all 6 in just 3 weeks, averaging about 2 per week.

📅 Everything done in March 2026:
✅ ACA-915 Atlassian Cloud Foundations – March 11
✅ ACA-900 Jira Essentials – March 13
✅ ACA-925 JSM Agent Essentials – March 18
✅ ACA-910 ITSM with JSM Foundations – March 19
✅ ACA-920 Confluence Essentials – March 26
✅ ACA- 905 Jira Software Board Configuration – March 26

👉 One honest takeaway:
Because I already had Atlassian Professional certifications — ACP-120 (Jira Administrator for Cloud, passed September 2025) and ACP-100 (Jira Administration for Data Center), the Associate exams didn’t feel as hard as I expected.

A lot of the concepts were already part of my day-to-day work so it became more about recognizing the questions and staying consistent, rather than learning everything from scratch.

💡 If you’re planning to take these:

• Don’t overthink it
• Build real hands-on experience
• And if you can, aim for Professional-level knowledge early (not advisable 😅)

Happy to share tips from my March journey if anyone’s preparing 👌

[Param Kelkar]

Hello @Mark Sayo can you please share your preparation journey for the exams. I'm planning to take ACA-900 Jira Essentials within this week and after that I'm going to take ACP-120 as well. Can you provide me some guidance on the question paper style and any specific hands on practice needed for them or any external material?
Thanks.

[Mark Sayo]

Hi @Param Kelkar 

For ACA-900 (Jira Essentials), I’d say just focus on the basics and how things actually work in Jira:

• Navigating Jira (projects, boards, menus)
• Creating and managing work items (issues)
• Understanding workflows, statuses, and boards (Scrum/Kanban)
• Personal settings (dashboards, preferences)

💡 What helped me:

• I went through the self-paced training  to get a solid foundation

• Make sure to deep dive into the topic weightings:

  • Basic concepts — 21%
  • Jira navigation — 15%
  • Rovo basics — 3%
  • Issue lifecycle, workflow, and boards — 24%
  • Working with work items — 37%

👉 The exam is more about understanding how Jira is used, not memorizing—so if you’ve used Jira hands-on, that helps a lot.

✅ Also recommend going through the official Jira Essentials prep resources—they’re pretty aligned with the actual exam.

[Anwesha Pan]

Thanks @Mark Sayo for the guidance with the details for Jira Essentials certificate. 

[Ree Kent]

Congratulations @Mark Sayo ! This is quite an achievement. 

[Mark Sayo]

@Ree Kent Small wins. Big achievement. 🚀

[Susan Waldrip]

WOW! That's a really great achievement, @Mark Sayo ! Congrats, hope you celebrate BIG for this! 🥳🙌 

[Mark Sayo]

@Susan Waldrip Thank you so much! 🙌

It was a fun (and intense) March, definitely celebrating this one.

Maybe not 6 parties, but at least one 😅🥳

[Ann Francis Alegria]

Wow, congratulations! Your journey to passing all those certifications is so impressive and inspiring. You truly deserve this success!"

[Jason Krewson]

Amazing, Congrats! 

[Suzanne Rochelle Dela Cruz]

Congratulations Mark! Truly an Atlassian Champion.