Asana Workflow Specialist Certification
Practice Exam (120 Questions)
1. In Asana, what is the basic unit of work that can be assigned to a person and
given a due date?
A. Portfolio
B. Team
C. Task
D. Section
Answer: C. Task
Rationale: Tasks are the fundamental building blocks of work in Asana. Portfolios,
teams and sections are ways of grouping or organizing work, not units of work.
2. How many assignees can a single Asana task have at one time?
A. One
B. Two
C. Up to five
D. As many as the project has members
Answer: A. One
Rationale: Every task has a single assignee so accountability is always clear.
When several people contribute, use subtasks or separate tasks.
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,3. Three specialists must each complete their own part of one deliverable, and
each part needs a clear owner. What is the best setup?
A. Assign the parent task to all three specialists
B. Create one subtask per specialist under the parent task and assign each
subtask to one person
C. Assign the task to one person and list the others in the description
D. Create a single task and describe each part in a comment
Answer: B. Create one subtask per specialist under the parent task and
assign each subtask to one person
Rationale: Subtasks can each have their own assignee and due date, which keeps
ownership clear while the parent task tracks the overall deliverable.
4. Which project view organizes tasks into columns so work can move across
stages, Kanban style?
A. Calendar
B. Timeline
C. Board
D. Files
Answer: C. Board
Rationale: Board view displays sections as columns and tasks as cards that can
be dragged from one stage to the next.
5. Which project view shows tasks as bars on a time axis and displays
dependency relationships between them?
A. Timeline
B. Board
C. List
D. Messages
Answer: A. Timeline
Rationale: Timeline is Asana's Gantt-style view. It plots start and due dates as
bars and draws lines between dependent tasks.
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,6. A marketing manager wants to see which tasks are due on each day of the
month. Which view fits best?
A. Board
B. Calendar
C. Overview
D. Files
Answer: B. Calendar
Rationale: Calendar view places tasks on a day, week or month grid based on
their due dates.
7. What is the role of sections in a List-view project?
A. They restrict which members can view the tasks inside them
B. They store attachments separately from tasks
C. They define which team owns the project
D. They group related tasks and become the columns when the project is viewed
as a board
Answer: D. They group related tasks and become the columns when the
project is viewed as a board
Rationale: Sections are organizational groupings. The same sections appear as
columns in Board view, which is why they are commonly used to represent
workflow stages.
8. What does it mean to multi-home a task?
A. To assign the task to more than one person
B. To copy the task into another workspace
C. To convert the task into a project
D. To add the same task to more than one project at the same time
Answer: D. To add the same task to more than one project at the same time
Rationale: A multi-homed task is a single task that lives in several projects. Any
update made to it appears everywhere it is homed.
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, 9. A designer's task is relevant to both the 'Campaign Launch' project and the
'Design Requests' project. How can it be tracked in both without creating
duplicates?
A. Add the task to both projects (multi-homing)
B. Duplicate the task and keep both copies updated manually
C. Create a portfolio that contains both projects
D. Create a dependency between the two projects
Answer: A. Add the task to both projects (multi-homing)
Rationale: Multi-homing keeps one source of truth, so a change to the due date,
assignee or status is visible in each project.
10. If Task B is marked 'blocked by' Task A, what does this indicate?
A. Task A cannot be completed until Task B is finished
B. Task B should not be started until Task A is completed
C. Task A and Task B must have the same assignee
D. Task B is automatically completed when Task A is completed
Answer: B. Task B should not be started until Task A is completed
Rationale: A dependency shows that one task must finish before another can
begin. Task A is the blocking task and Task B is the waiting task.
11. What happens when the assignee completes a task that is blocking other
tasks?
A. The waiting tasks are automatically completed
B. The assignees of the waiting tasks are notified that their tasks are no longer
blocked
C. The waiting tasks are deleted from the project
D. The waiting tasks are reassigned to the person who completed the blocking
task
Answer: B. The assignees of the waiting tasks are notified that their tasks are
no longer blocked
Rationale: Asana notifies the people whose tasks were waiting so they know they
can begin work.
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Practice Exam (120 Questions)
1. In Asana, what is the basic unit of work that can be assigned to a person and
given a due date?
A. Portfolio
B. Team
C. Task
D. Section
Answer: C. Task
Rationale: Tasks are the fundamental building blocks of work in Asana. Portfolios,
teams and sections are ways of grouping or organizing work, not units of work.
2. How many assignees can a single Asana task have at one time?
A. One
B. Two
C. Up to five
D. As many as the project has members
Answer: A. One
Rationale: Every task has a single assignee so accountability is always clear.
When several people contribute, use subtasks or separate tasks.
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,3. Three specialists must each complete their own part of one deliverable, and
each part needs a clear owner. What is the best setup?
A. Assign the parent task to all three specialists
B. Create one subtask per specialist under the parent task and assign each
subtask to one person
C. Assign the task to one person and list the others in the description
D. Create a single task and describe each part in a comment
Answer: B. Create one subtask per specialist under the parent task and
assign each subtask to one person
Rationale: Subtasks can each have their own assignee and due date, which keeps
ownership clear while the parent task tracks the overall deliverable.
4. Which project view organizes tasks into columns so work can move across
stages, Kanban style?
A. Calendar
B. Timeline
C. Board
D. Files
Answer: C. Board
Rationale: Board view displays sections as columns and tasks as cards that can
be dragged from one stage to the next.
5. Which project view shows tasks as bars on a time axis and displays
dependency relationships between them?
A. Timeline
B. Board
C. List
D. Messages
Answer: A. Timeline
Rationale: Timeline is Asana's Gantt-style view. It plots start and due dates as
bars and draws lines between dependent tasks.
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,6. A marketing manager wants to see which tasks are due on each day of the
month. Which view fits best?
A. Board
B. Calendar
C. Overview
D. Files
Answer: B. Calendar
Rationale: Calendar view places tasks on a day, week or month grid based on
their due dates.
7. What is the role of sections in a List-view project?
A. They restrict which members can view the tasks inside them
B. They store attachments separately from tasks
C. They define which team owns the project
D. They group related tasks and become the columns when the project is viewed
as a board
Answer: D. They group related tasks and become the columns when the
project is viewed as a board
Rationale: Sections are organizational groupings. The same sections appear as
columns in Board view, which is why they are commonly used to represent
workflow stages.
8. What does it mean to multi-home a task?
A. To assign the task to more than one person
B. To copy the task into another workspace
C. To convert the task into a project
D. To add the same task to more than one project at the same time
Answer: D. To add the same task to more than one project at the same time
Rationale: A multi-homed task is a single task that lives in several projects. Any
update made to it appears everywhere it is homed.
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, 9. A designer's task is relevant to both the 'Campaign Launch' project and the
'Design Requests' project. How can it be tracked in both without creating
duplicates?
A. Add the task to both projects (multi-homing)
B. Duplicate the task and keep both copies updated manually
C. Create a portfolio that contains both projects
D. Create a dependency between the two projects
Answer: A. Add the task to both projects (multi-homing)
Rationale: Multi-homing keeps one source of truth, so a change to the due date,
assignee or status is visible in each project.
10. If Task B is marked 'blocked by' Task A, what does this indicate?
A. Task A cannot be completed until Task B is finished
B. Task B should not be started until Task A is completed
C. Task A and Task B must have the same assignee
D. Task B is automatically completed when Task A is completed
Answer: B. Task B should not be started until Task A is completed
Rationale: A dependency shows that one task must finish before another can
begin. Task A is the blocking task and Task B is the waiting task.
11. What happens when the assignee completes a task that is blocking other
tasks?
A. The waiting tasks are automatically completed
B. The assignees of the waiting tasks are notified that their tasks are no longer
blocked
C. The waiting tasks are deleted from the project
D. The waiting tasks are reassigned to the person who completed the blocking
task
Answer: B. The assignees of the waiting tasks are notified that their tasks are
no longer blocked
Rationale: Asana notifies the people whose tasks were waiting so they know they
can begin work.
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