Recap - Are you smarter than a Confluence Admin? | November 2024
On Friday November 22, @Robert Wen_Cprime_ donned his crown and joined me "Online" @Andy Gladstone to co-host the third edition of Are You Smarter Than A Confluence Admin (hereafter referred to as #AYSTACA). Bob brought his dulcet tones and encyclopedic knowledge of Confluence, I brought my ability to bore people with monologue and soliloquy and we had 40+ participants play along to learn and earn and claim themselves an #AYSTACA gladiator!
The leaderboard was a flurry of activity as the gladiators fought valiantly in the colosseum while competing for the following fame and glory:
Podium Prizes:
- 1st place - $100 Atlassian Community Gift Card
- 2nd place - $50 Atlassian Community Gift Card
- 3rd place - $25 Atlassian Community Gift Card
Top 10:
- 100% Free certification vouchers from Atlassian University
- Special digital badge + name in honor roll on online community
In this competition, here is who came out in the top 10!
- @Tomislav Tobijas _Koios_
- Lindsay B
- @Gary Spross
- Harrison
- @Adrien Tasca
- @Justin Schlueter
- Ted Nieblas
- Christine Towns
- @Seung Park
- Marie
If you are on the leaderboard, please comment from your "real" profile or link the same in the comment so that we can get you this awesome badge and your 100% free certification vouchers.
Top 3, post you have confirmed your account, and we will reach out to you for your gift cards as well!
December is a month of gifting, and @Sajit Nair _Trundl_ has doubled the fun! Make sure to sign up for BOTH #AYSTA events taking place in December!
Are You Smarter Than A Trello Admin, hosted by @Fun Man Andy, @Brittany Joiner and @Dreamsuite Mike is the first edition dedicated to Trello and will be a blast with these three community Trello SME's! It's set to take place on Monday December 9 @ 10AM EDT / 3PM GMT / 8:30PM IST.
And the final episode of the season, #AYSTAJA - Are You Smarter Than a Jira Admin - will be hosted by none other than our Quiz Master Extraordinaire @Sajit Nair _Trundl_ and Senior Certification Developer at Atlassian @Joanna Thurmann - one of the many Atlassian's that have supported this series behind the scenes and is instrumental in the creation of the exams that this series helps you prepare for! They will be joined by some special guests as well. Ring in out the year with this amazing duo. It will take place on Thursday December 19 and we'll link the details in the comments once this session has been published.
To assist you with your test prep, here are the questions and answers from this session for your studying pleasure!
Q1: You want to customize your Confluence cloud site. What is one thing that you can do directly as a Confluence admin?
A) Change the homepage URL
B) Reorientate the navigation bar
C) Change the site’s theme
D) Rename Confluence features
Reasoning
A) Incorrect. The URL cannot be changed by a Confluence admin without assistance from Atlassian and would still be limited to an “atlassian.net” URL address for Confluence cloud.
B) Incorrect. The navigation bar cannot be directly altered by a Confluence admin. Themes can, however, have different layouts.
C) Correct. The site’s theme can be changed in the look and feel section of the Confluence settings.
D) Incorrect. Confluence features cannot be renamed for the site as a whole.
Q2: Which macro can only pull in data from the page it’s included in?
A) Page properties report macro
B) Table of contents macro
C) Insert excerpt macro
D) Attachments macro
Reasoning
A) Incorrect. The Page Properties and Page Properties Report macro work together to enable you to show summary information from one page on another page.
B) Correct. The Table of Contents macro only references text that uses a heading within that same page.
C.)Incorrect. The Insert Excerpt macro displays an excerpt from another page.
D. Incorrect) The Attachments macro includes an option called “Page Title” that can be used to display attachments from another page.
Q3: An employee was recently fired and you want to understand if any of his content was modified within the last day. What should you check?
A) His personal space
B) The Audit Log
C) His Access
D) Mission Control
Reasoning
A) Incorrect. The employee may have edited content outside of his personal space.
B) Correct. The audit log gives you a history of changes to your Confluence site including the time, user, event type, change, and item affected for each action within the set timeframe.
C) Incorrect. Understanding the employee’s access wouldn’t necessarily add any clarity to what content was modified within the last day.
D) Incorrect. Mission control is meant to understand the usage of the site as a whole, configuration of pages and spaces, and content breakdown.
Q4: A document titled “screenshot 1” is linked to a page. Another document with the same title is then added. Which statement is definitely true?
A) The added document has the title “screenshot 2”
B) The body of the page includes “screenshot 1”
C) “screenshot 1” is overwritten for the page
D) A label for the new attachment is auto-created
Reasoning
A) Incorrect. Attachments are not renamed or renumbered after being added to a page.
B) Incorrect. Attachments don’t have to be included in the body of a page for it to be included in the attachments page.
C) Correct. When an attachment is added with the same name as a previous attachment, the old attachment is overwritten.
D) Incorrect. Labels can be added to attachments, but they are not auto-created.
Q5: You want to hide a page from a space’s sidebar while retaining the content. What should you do?
A) Delete the Page
B) Export a PDF of the Page
C) Archive the Page
D) Add a Page Restriction
Reasoning
A) Incorrect. While deleting the page will remove it from a space’s sidebar, the content will also be permanently deleted.
B) Incorrect. Exporting a PDF of the page will not have any effect on the page’s availability within the sidebar.
C) Correct. Archiving the page will remove it from a space’s sidebar while retaining the content.
D) Incorrect. While restricting the View permission would hide the page from the sidebar for some people, you can’t remove yourself from a page restriction. This also is not the best way to hide a page from the sidebar.
Q6: You add a link for an outside URL to a Confluence page. What is one thing that you can do with this link?
A) Change the display text
B) Link Page Properties
C) Add motion to the text
D) Change the text color
Reasoning
A) Correct. Links in a Confluence page can show a different display text than the URL.
B) Incorrect. Page properties are not tied to links.
C) Incorrect. Page links are stationary.
D) Incorrect. Links are always blue hyperlinks. The color of links cannot be changed like with other text.
Q7: Which macro includes an option to add multiple levels?
A) Child Pages
B) Expand
C) Info Panel
D) Page Properties
Reasoning
A) Correct. The Child pages macro enables you to toggle on all levels or to select the max number of levels.
B) Incorrect. Levels cannot be added to expand panels.
C) Incorrect. Levels cannot be added to info panels.
D) Incorrect. Page properties do not use levels.
Q8: Which keyboard shortcut is used to add a comment to a page?
A) C
B) E
C) S
D) M
Reasoning
A) Incorrect. 'c' is used to create a page.
B) Incorrect. 'e' is used to edit a page.
C) Incorrect. 's' is used to share a page.
D) Correct. 'm' is used to comment on a page.
Q9: What happens by default when a new version of a page is published?
A) The page status is updated
B) The page is starred
C) Watchers are notified by email
D) A version comment is added
Reasoning
A) Incorrect. The page status is manually set and is not set by default when a page is updated.
B) Incorrect. Pages are starred manually; not when a new version of a page is published.
C) Correct. Watchers are notified by email when a new version of a page is published. This option can be deselected though prior to publishing a page.
D) Incorrect. Version comments can be added when publishing a new version of a page, but they are not required or added by default.
Q10: Which attribute has NO affect on a user’s ability to determine who can edit a page?
A) Being a Space Admin
B) Having a Space Permission
C) A Page Restriction
D) Being a Page Owner
Reasoning
A) Incorrect. Space admins can add and delete restrictions to pages, even without the add/delete restriction permission.
B) Incorrect. At the space level, the add/delete restrictions permission determines who can change the view and edit page restrictions.
C) Incorrect. There is a page restriction for editing pages. In addition, if a page has view restrictions it won't display for anyone who doesn't have permission to view it thereby limiting users' ability to edit the page.
D) Correct. Being a page owner does not determine or have an effect on who can edit a page.
Q11: Ira was able to archive a page while Ben could not. What explains this difference?
A) A Page Restriction
B) A Global Permission
C) A Space Permission
D) A Storage Limit
Reasoning
A. Incorrect. Page restrictions determine who can view and edit a page; not who can archive a page.
B. Incorrect. Global permissions deal with user groups, guests, public links, anonymous access, JSM access, and apps.
C) Correct. Archiving is one of the permissions associated with space permissions.
D. Incorrect. Both archived and unarchived pages affect storage limits (which apply to free and standard plans).
Q12: A page was created with a macro. An attachment was then added with a page comment to explain it. Which action did not require a space permission?
A) Creating the Page
B) Adding the Macro
C) Adding the Attachment
D) Adding the Comment
Reasoning
A) Incorrect. Creating the page requires the add permission for Pages, whiteboards, databases, and Smart Links.
B) Correct. Adding the macro does not require any space permissions.
C) Incorrect. Adding the attachment requires the add attachments permission.
D) Incorrect. Adding the comment requires the add comments permission.
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