RBAC Clarity & Access Control Confidence Assessment
Measures how well product administrators understand role-based access control concepts, permission scopes, and inheritance behaviors. Use this to identify confusion points, predictability gaps, and documentation needs that impact governance and security posture.
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Which of the following best describes your primary admin role for this product?
- Organization/tenant admin
- Workspace/project admin
- Team/group admin
- Security/compliance admin
- Support/helpdesk admin
- I'm the only admin
The next few questions present common admin scenarios. Please select the outcome you would expect based on your current understanding.
How clear are the role names and labels used in this product?
Think of a recent time (within the last 90 days) when a role or permission change did not produce the outcome you expected. Please describe what happened.
What is your primary region?
- Africa
- Asia
- Europe
- North America
- Oceania
- South America
- Prefer not to say
Thank you for your time. Your feedback will directly inform improvements to roles, permissions, and access control in this product.
How long have you been an admin for this product?
- Less than 1 month
- 1–3 months
- 3–6 months
- 6–12 months
- 1–2 years
- More than 2 years
Scenario: You grant a mid-level role (e.g., Editor) at a specific project level. What outcome do you expect?
- Can create/edit content only within that project
- Can create/edit content across all projects
- Can view across the organization but edit nowhere
- Cannot access until explicitly added
- Not sure
How clear are the permission descriptions in this product?
Based on your responses in this survey, what is the single most important improvement that would make roles and permissions clearer or more predictable?
Approximately how many employees are in your organization?
- 1–10
- 11–50
- 51–200
- 201–1,000
- 1,001–5,000
- 5,001–10,000
- 10,001+
- Prefer not to say
Approximately how many active user accounts do you manage in this product?
- 1–10
- 11–50
- 51–200
- 201–500
- 501–1,000
- 1,001–5,000
- 5,001+
Scenario: You assign a high-level role at the organization level. What should happen to nested resources (workspaces/projects)?
- Applies to all nested resources by default
- Applies to nested resources, but can be overridden
- Does not apply to nested resources
- Not sure
How clear is the scope and inheritance model (e.g., organization → workspace → project) in this product?
Which industry best describes your organization?
- Technology
- Education
- Healthcare
- Finance
- Government
- Nonprofit
- Retail/Consumer
- Manufacturing
- Other
- Prefer not to say
Which environments do you primarily administer?
- Production only
- Non-production only (e.g., sandbox/staging)
- Both equally
- Not sure
Before saving role or permission changes, which one check do you most often perform?
- Review a preview/impact summary
- Use a test user or impersonation
- Apply in staging/sandbox first
- Ask a colleague to verify
- Proceed and monitor audit logs
- I do not perform any checks
- Other (please specify)
In the last 30 days, how often did role or permission changes behave as you expected?
After configuring roles and permissions, how confident are you that access levels are set correctly?
How satisfied are you with the in-product guidance and documentation about roles and permissions?
Please rank the following areas from most confusing (top) to least confusing (bottom) based on your experience.
- Role names
- Permission descriptions
- Scopes/levels (org/workspace/project)
- Default access for new members
- Group/team behavior
- Inheritance and overrides
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