Recap - Are you smarter than a Jira Admin? | Halloween Special, October 2024
Friday the 25th was notable not only because of another #AYSTAJA series but also because it was the first-ever Halloween Special featuring myself (the Grumpy Cat Witch/Queen) and the one and only @Rodney Nissen - ReleaseTEAM, or to make it easier for the people familiar with his more famous name: The Jira Guy.
More than 90 people played along until the very end, and it was great fun in the chat.
Watch the video recording on YouTube.
While testing their Jira Admin skills, our contenders battled for the following prizes:
Podium Prizes:
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1st place - $100 Atlassian Community Gift Card
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2nd place - $50 Atlassian Community Gift Card
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3rd place - $25 Atlassian Community Gift Card
Top 10:
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100% Free certification vouchers from Atlassian University
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Special digital badge + name in honor roll on online community
Congratulations to the 10 finalists:
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Patrice David Förster
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Gary Spross
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Chris Rogers
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@Michel Neeser (Confirmed) 🏆
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Guy
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Hans
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@Frankie C. (Confirmed) 🏆
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Adrien Tasca
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Erik Neuder
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@Brandon Davies (Confirmed) 🏆
Please all finalists to identify themselves in the comment section so a member of the Community Team can contact them with further details.
“Are You Smarter Than a Confluence Admin” is coming in November, so make sure you sign up for the fun! Event moderators will be @Robert Wen_Cprime_ and @Andy Gladstone
To help your ACP & AYSTAJA prep, here are the questions used in October’s edition.
Q: Which do you edit to add a new issue type to a Company-managed project?
A) Issue Type Screen Scheme
B) Priority Scheme
C) Issue Security Scheme
D) Issue Type Scheme
Reasoning
A. Incorrect. The Issue Type Screen Scheme maps Screen Shemes to issuetypes, but does not control which Issue Types are on the project.
B. Incorrect. Priority Schemes allow you to set up which Priorities are available for a given project, and have no impact on Screen Schemes.
C. Incorrect.
Issue Security Schemes are used to setup what Issue security levels are available for a project, and thusly do not impact Issue Types.
D. Correct. Modifying a Issue Type Scheme associated with the project will change what Issue Types a project can use.
Q: How many Automations can you run on the Standard Tier of Jira?
A) 100
B) 1000/User
C) 1.700
D) Unlimited
Reasoning
A. Incorrect. This is the usage limit for Jira’s Free tier
B. Incorrect. This is the usage limit for Jira’s Premium and Enterprise Tiers
C. Correct. The standard Tier allows you 1,700 runs per month.
D. Incorrect. Atlassian now places limits on all tiers for Automation
Q: What feature allows you to quickly make notifications to all users who log into your instance?
A) Pop-Up Display
B) Announcement Banner
C) Look and Feel
D) Send Email
Reasoning
A. Incorrect. There is no feature to directly display a pop-up in Jira, though this can be “hacked” in using the Announcement Banner.
B. Correct. The Announcement Banner lets you put a message at the top of your instance. Furthermore, it can be set to private, so it only shows up when users log in.
C. Incorrect. While Look and Feel can control many aspects of your Jira Instance’s appearance, it cannot allow you to add messages.
D. Incorrect. This isn’t available for all tiers, and when available, sends to all users, regardless of whether they are logged in or not.
Q: Which statement is true about issue collectors?
A) Only licensed users can raise feedback
B) Only one issue collector is allowed per project
C) Browser info must always be collected
D) They only exist in company-managed projects
Reasoning
A. Incorrect. You don't need a Jira license to raise feedback.
B. Incorrect. You can create multiple issue collectors per project.
C. Incorrect. Issue collectors have a checkbox called “Collect browser info”. It collects the environment data of the user, if they consent to it being collected. This data includes the browser type, screen resolution, referral header, and URL where the feedback was collected. But this checkbox can be disabled.
D. Correct. You can only configure issue collectors in company-managed projects.
https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/use-the-issue-collector/
Q: Amanda is a project lead who needs the ability to create projects. She should NOT receive Jira admin privileges. What does Amanda need?
A) Product access
B) Product role
C) Project permission
D) Global permission
Reasoning
A. Incorrect. She already has product access since she is a project lead.
B. Incorrect. She should not have Jira admin privileges hence she cannot have the Product Admin product role for the Jira Administration product.
D. Incorrect. Project permissions do not allow creating projects.
D. Correct. This is precisely the reason that Jira has team-managed project. Amanda needs “Create team-managed projects” global permission.
Q: You created a filter subscription and set the “Sales” group as recipients. They complain that the subscription is often empty. What is the root cause?
A) Filter subscription setting
B) JQL syntax errors
C) Too many users
D) Missing global permission
Reasoning
A. Correct. The setting "Email this filter, even if there are no issues found" can be enabled when configuring a filter subscription. Then the subscription will be sent empty if there are no matching issues.
B. Incorrect. A filter cannot be saved with JQL syntax errors.
C. Incorrect. The number of users subscribed would not directly cause the subscription to be empty. It might impact performance or delivery but not the presence of content.
D. Incorrect. A missing global permission; namely, “Manage group filter subscriptions” would prevent you from configuring the group filter subscription in the first place, rather than causing it to be empty.
Q: Several partners, from different companies, must see all Jira issues. All projects share a single permission scheme. How should they be configured?
A) As a new project role
B) As a new group
C) As a security level
D) As an approved domain
Reasoning
A. Incorrect. You would need to add the same partner users, either individually or as a group, to the project role within each project. This is cumbersome.
B. Correct. A group can be added to the Browse Projects permission in the single shared permission scheme to allow the partners access.
C. Incorrect. Security levels control access to specific issues within projects, not across all projects. This is not the use case here, especially since partners need to see all issues in all projects.
D. Incorrect. Users with approved email domains can join with or without an invitation. When a user joins, they receive access to the designated products. This does not guarantee they will have access to the projects. Additionally, since the partners are from different companies, there is not a single approved domain.
Q: A project named “Customer Acquisition” has the project key “SALES”. What statement is definitely true?
A) The project key was always “SALES”
B) The project name was always “Customer Acquisition”
C) The project has a project lead
D) The project has a project category
Reasoning
A. Incorrect. Project key can be changed so this is not definitely true.
B. Incorrect. Project name can be changed so this is not definitely true.
C. Correct. All projects must have a project lead.
D. Incorrect. Project category is optional.
Q: When should you archive a version rather than delete it?
A) When it needs to be removed from the Release Hub
B) When it needs to be removed from all issues
C) When all issues in the version need to be closed
D) When you need to search for the version in the future
Reasoning
A. Incorrect. Archived versions remain visible in the Release Hub.
B. Incorrect. Archiving a version does not remove it from the issues it is associated with.
C. Incorrect. Issues in a version are not automatically closed when a version is archived.
D. Correct. You can search for an archived version and you can unarchive it, if desired. But once it is deleted, it cannot be referenced in any capacity.
Q: A new issue type needs to be added to a project. Which scheme will definitely require no further configuration as a result?
A) Field configuration scheme
B) Workflow scheme
C) Permission scheme
D) Issue type scheme
Reasoning
A. Incorrect. The field configuration scheme maps issue types to field configurations. So it may potentially need to be updated.
B. Incorrect. The workflow scheme maps issue types to workflows. So it may potentially need to be updated.
C. Correct. Permissions are always the same for the entire project, regardless of the issue type.
D. Incorrect. The issue type scheme needs to be updated in order to add a new issue type to the project.
Q: You are creating a new component in a project. Which one is NOT an option in the “Default assignee” dropdown setting for the component?
A) Project default
B) Project lead
C) Unassigned
D) Reporter
Reasoning
A. Incorrect. This is one of the possible options. There are 4 options in total: Project default, Project lead, Unassigned, and Component lead.
B. Incorrect. This is one of the possible options.
C. Incorrect. This is one of the possible options.
D. Correct. Reporter is not a possible option in the “Default assignee” dropdown setting while creating a new component.
Q: On a particular issue, a user sees only two options in the Security Level field while another user sees more options. Identify a possible cause.
A) Different personal settings
B) Different user groups
C) Missing project permissions
D) Missing global permissions
Reasoning
A. Incorrect. Issue-level security is not controlled by personal settings.
B. Correct. It is possible that one user is not part of a group that grants access to the other levels. You must be in the Security Level which you wish to select from the dropdown.
C. Incorrect. Since both users can see and edit the Security Level field, they both have the required project permissions (Edit Issues and Set Issue Security).
D. Incorrect. No global permissions are required.
Q: Which project requirement can be met only by a team-managed project?
A) Allow project admins to modify the workflow
B) Allow managers to track time spent on tasks
C) Allow users to view a cumulative flow diagram
D) Allow teams to plan with a kanban backlog
Reasoning
A. Correct. One of the distinguishing features of team-managed projects is that project admins – as opposed to just Jira admins – can customize project configurations, including workflows.
B. Incorrect. Both project types can use time-tracking features.
C. Incorrect. Both project types offer basic reports for software teams, including Cumulative Flow diagrams.
D. Incorrect. You can enable a backlog in both company-managed and team-managed projects.
Q: A Jira notification was sent as a result of each event below. Which one was definitely triggered by automation rather than the notification scheme?
A) An issue was transitioned from “Open” to “Pending”
B) A comment was edited on an issue
C) The amount of time logged on an issue was reduced
D) Two days have elapsed without any activity on an issue
Reasoning
A. Incorrect. This could have been triggered by a system or custom notification event and not necessarily automation.
B. Incorrect. This could have been triggered by the “Issue Comment Edited” system event in the notification scheme.
C. Incorrect. This could have been triggered by the “Issue Worklog Updated” system event in the notification scheme.
D. Correct. Scheduling a notification based on elapsed time doesn’t fire any notification events. So an automation rule is required.
Q: Which feature is available only in team-managed projects?
A) Board filters
B) Card cover images
C) Custom field context
D) Paragraph custom fields
Reasoning
A. Incorrect. You can filter the board in both types of projects. In team-managed projects, these are called “custom filters” while in company-managed projects, they are called “quick filters”.
B. Correct. Team-managed projects have a feature called “card cover images”. It allows images to be used as issue card covers on the board. The first uploaded image will be used as the cover.
C. Incorrect. Custom field context applies only to custom fields in company-managed projects.
D. Incorrect. Both types of projects can use Paragraph custom fields.
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