Workflows and automation
10 min
In this lesson, you'll work through a sandbox challenge designed to give you hands-on experience with workflows and automation. Together, they drive the power and the backbone of Jira configurability. This challenges will help reinforce key concepts and prepare you for various kinds of scenario-based questions in the exam.
You will also test your knowledge and assess if you're ready for the exam with these sample questions.
Sandbox challenges
To pass the exam, technical knowledge of Jira features is crucial, but it is not enough. The majority of exam questions are based on scenarios that must be understood, analyzed, and evaluated to find the correct answer that fits the stated constraints.
The following challenge will assist you in exploring a scenario with workflows and automation. This will help to develop your approach and prompt you to investigate different methods and solutions as you prepare for the exam.
Workflows and automation
Your teams have been using their projects for a while and requested several configuration changes to improve their processes.
- How do the steps differ to modify a workflow in a company-managed versus a team-managed project?
- What types of transitions exist in both types of workflows?
- How are notifications tied to workflows in company-managed projects?
- What rules can you add to a team-managed workflow?
- What is the impact of changing a status name used in company-managed projects?
- What is the impact of changing a status name used in a team-managed project?
- What else should you update after making changes to a workflow?
- What factors help you decide to add a post-function to a transition in a company-managed workflow versus creating an automation rule?
- What are the parts of an automation rule?
- Where can you see what automation rules are running in a particular project?
- How can you change the automation rule actor and why would you do so?
Resource for the sample question
For more information on the feature described in the sample question, refer to the resource.