Admin privileges required to create a new product role, AND set a default group to that role.

Question

While preparing for ACP-520, Jira Cloud administration, I notice some conflicting info.

Can anyone please help to confirm the below, as it is a bit confusing:

Which admin privileges are required to: 
Create a new product role, AND Set a default group to that role.

A:'Product admin role for Jira Administrator'.

B: 'Site Administrator'

C: Project Administrator'

D:  User role of Jira Software'

Reading the Atlassian doc's, and conducting tests, I'd say B, but according to the practice exam it's A.

Mikael Sandberg · Answer

Correct, org admins can also do this. But you should always think what is the minimum permission needed in order to do something when answering a question like this, so therefor product admin is the correct answer.

MS_7dir71 · Answer

Thanks Mikael. I am still confused, as per the Atlassian docs, (and after testing this myself), a Site/Org Admin can create a new product role and set a default role.

See excerpt from the Atlassian doc below:

How does product access work?

As an organization admin, you can grant the default level of product access to users by doing one of the following:

assign a product role when you invite a new user to your organization

assign a product role to give product access to an existing user

add one or more users to a group (any product role you add to a group grants access to all the group members)

To give users product access, you must assign them a role in admin.atlassian.com. Organization admins are able to assign product roles. User access admins can also do this, but only for products they administer. Similarly, a site administrator can only assign roles within sites they administer.

Mikael Sandberg · Answer

Hi MS,

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

In order to create a role and set the group you only need Product admin permissions, so option A is correct. You would only need site admin if you also needed to create the group as well.