[CLOSED] Be the first: Atlassian University's beta program for new Cloud Certifications

[Ben Thoma]

@Sanmat Jhanjhari I guarantee to you that the Certification team is seeing (and absorbing) your comments!

[Ariel.Prado]

Hi everyone!

I took the exam on Sep 4. My point of view:

1) I had the question with three options and only 2 options enabled.
2) I had the same question twice. (i put it on the question comments)
3) I agree about the time to a response about the cualification is a lot. I m a little regreted about had taking this exam, is a lot preparation and like someone said is 50% knowledge and 50% lucky.
4) i was 2,5 hours sitting doing the exam and i was finish when i ask to go to the bathroom to review the last questions calm, i said it will be quicky, and the answer was "No".
It was uncomfortable to be the last half hour of the exam peeing on me. I understand the importance to detect some cheatings but this is a lot...

If i will pass, i will be happy but i have some bad feelings :(

[Conrad Wade]

acp-620 wishlist

Please add full documentation PDF to the list of downloadable assets for cloud... it exists for the other products and would have helped a lot... to read this cover to cover requires a lot of clicks in its current form. 

also, for future beta programs perhaps consider allowing users to add skill badges during beta program so as to round out the education/validation experience during the downtime.  I feel stagnant, but don't want to take the skill badge exams until I pass acp-620.

lastly, I could reverberate frustration with the training assets...i.e. I was never able to find out how to log in to the demo project.... the day before the exam I finally found the slide deck with the script.... The training felt a little discombobulated (to me) as I was expected to read a slide and simultaneously correlate it to what he was saying, which at times, was a struggle. Having these resources presented a bit better would have helped. I think pushing the training assets down below under a giant hero header (inside a menu) is a bit too hidden. 

<3 thank you Atlassian! Cant wait to see my results and continue growing with you guys! <3

[Chaitanya Srinadhu]

Is there any news on when the results of ACP-620 will be out? I gave mine on August 23rd and havent heard any news after that. 

[Conrad Wade]

@Chaitanya  - I found this for you (pasted from an email Atlassian sent me. 

When will I receive my exam result? 

• On September 16, we launched the production exam for pre-registration with available exam appointments starting November 1, so you can schedule and try again if you did not pass the beta exam. However, we recommend waiting until you receive your beta exam result.

• On October 31, your exam result will show either Pass or Fail with an overall percentage score in the Certification Portal. 

• By November 15, your score report showing the section breakdown in percentages will be available in the Certification Portal. 

Important information about the passing score:

• Several different versions of the beta exam were presented.  The pass score will differ between the versions.

• The pass score of the production exam will differ from the pass score of the beta exam.

Why is the pass score not the same for all versions and the production exam?

The passing scores on the different versions of the exam are calibrated to account for differences in how difficult or easy the selection of questions was.  The pass scores, while different, represent an exactly equivalent measure of competency based on the questions that were included in the version. 

[Chaitanya Srinadhu]

Thank you! @Conrad Wade 

[Romel]

@Ben Thoma , received an email about a promotion ($100 off - ACP120), but on the website it says 

REGISTRATION AVAILABILITY: Opens on September 16, 2020 (Testing Begins on November 1, 2020)

"USD $150 + tax until 28 February 2020" shouldn't it be Feb 2021 given the registration availability?

[Rob Horan]

So if I get the lowest score ever do I win a prize?

(getting nervous waiting for the beta results)

[Ben Thoma]

@Romel Glad you got the email—and thank you for pointing out the error on our web site. We'll get that fixed as soon as possible, but it should read 28 February 2021! 

[Rob Horan]

Almost there, getting anxious...

[FEDERICO SPAGOCCI]

Yes very anxiosus.

I hope not to have to do it again, after all this waiting I would have to re-study and with the work it is really difficult, especially after knowing that they will take away the acp 300 the only agile certification I do not understand why while the acp 100 and 600

[Rob Horan]

Results in, passed! YES! Thanks again for the opportunity to take part in this beta cycle!

[Daniel Ebers]

Thanks to the certification team for giving us the opportunity to beta test the new exam - also big thanks for putting the results to Certmetrics.

I wish you all a great weekend ahead!

[Inayat Nahvi]

@Rob Horan congrats!  I just checked and saw I passed.  So does having ACP-100 and ACP-120 make a person eligible to be a certified Atlassian Expert?

[Eren Kalelioğlu]

Congrats @Rob Horan, @Daniel Ebers , @Inayat Nahvi 

I totally agree with you @Daniel Ebers. Thanks to @Ben Thoma and to the Atlassian certification team for giving us the opportunity to be a beta tester for the new cloud exams.

Best

[Inayat Nahvi]

Indeed, thanks to @Ben Thoma , @Julia , @Joanna Thurmann and the rest of the Atlassian team for putting this all together.

[Patricia Francezi]

Mission Complete!

It was an amazing journey! Very happy to achieve being both "beta cloud cert " 

1 for ACM path! :) 

[Hanna Pososhenko]

Passed!

Thanks for the great opportunity to become a beta tester.

Congratulate everyone!

[Ben Thoma]

Congratulations to everyone who passed these Cloud exams during our beta period. I am so impressed!

[Rob Horan]

I have been asked questions about how to prep for this exam and I have tried to give the best answers I can, but I am not sure if they are right.  Is there anything that shows the differences in requirements from the Beta to the final exam?

[Julia]

@Robert Horan , the requirements are the same. the topics are not changed. The exams will be 180 minutes long.  There will be around 70 questions.  The required passing score for ACP-120 will be 65% and for ACP-620 it will be 63%.

[Rob Horan]

Thank you @Julia !

[Daniel Ebers]

@Juliaone minor question to the beta exam came up as I visited the Certification Portal. For Server Certifications there is a link which provides the download of a "PDF Certificate".

For the ACP-JCA Cloud Certification there is no link.

I know, it is just symbolic to print it out - but is this something to come or won't there be a PDF certficate?

[Julia]

Hi @Daniel Ebers , the e-certificates should be available today, and also we’ll be restoring the online Score report PDFs that went missing over the weekend. 

[Julia]

Beta testers:

We've experienced a platform configuration issue with your Beta exam score reports, which caused them to stop displaying in the Certification Portal only a couple of days after we deployed them.

While most of you were able to see and download your reports before the problem occurred, we realize that some of you did not. We expect to have them all restored on 10 November. Thank you for your patience!