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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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22 questions · ~10 min
Q01
Message

Welcome to the RBAC Clarity & Access Control Confidence Assessment. This survey explores your experience configuring and managing roles, permissions, and access controls in this product. It should take approximately 5–7 minutes. Your participation is entirely voluntary and you may stop at any time. There are no right or wrong answers—we are interested in your honest experience. All responses are confidential, anonymized, and will be reported only in aggregate to improve the product.

Q02
Multiple Choice

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
Q03
Message

The next few questions present common admin scenarios. Please select the outcome you would expect based on your current understanding.

Q04
Opinion Scale

How clear are the role names and labels used in this product?

Scale: 17
Min:Not at all clearMax:Extremely clear
Q05
AI Interview

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.

Q06
Dropdown

What is your primary region?

  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Europe
  • North America
  • Oceania
  • South America
  • Prefer not to say
Q07
Message

Thank you for your time. Your feedback will directly inform improvements to roles, permissions, and access control in this product.

Q08
Dropdown

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
Q09
Multiple Choice

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
Q10
Opinion Scale

How clear are the permission descriptions in this product?

Scale: 17
Min:Not at all clearMax:Extremely clear
Q11
Long Text

Based on your responses in this survey, what is the single most important improvement that would make roles and permissions clearer or more predictable?

Q12
Dropdown

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
Q13
Dropdown

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+
Q14
Multiple Choice

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
Q15
Opinion Scale

How clear is the scope and inheritance model (e.g., organization → workspace → project) in this product?

Scale: 17
Min:Not at all clearMax:Extremely clear
Q16
Dropdown

Which industry best describes your organization?

  • Technology
  • Education
  • Healthcare
  • Finance
  • Government
  • Nonprofit
  • Retail/Consumer
  • Manufacturing
  • Other
  • Prefer not to say
Q17
Multiple Choice

Which environments do you primarily administer?

  • Production only
  • Non-production only (e.g., sandbox/staging)
  • Both equally
  • Not sure
Q18
Multiple Choice

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)
Q19
Opinion Scale

In the last 30 days, how often did role or permission changes behave as you expected?

Scale: 17
Min:NeverMax:Always
Q20
Opinion Scale

After configuring roles and permissions, how confident are you that access levels are set correctly?

Scale: 17
Min:Not at all confidentMax:Extremely confident
Q21
Opinion Scale

How satisfied are you with the in-product guidance and documentation about roles and permissions?

Scale: 17
Min:Not at all satisfiedMax:Extremely satisfied
Q22
Ranking

Please rank the following areas from most confusing (top) to least confusing (bottom) based on your experience.

  1. Role names
  2. Permission descriptions
  3. Scopes/levels (org/workspace/project)
  4. Default access for new members
  5. Group/team behavior
  6. Inheritance and overrides
Drag to rank

What’s included

  • AI follow-ups

    Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.

  • Attention checks

    Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.

  • AI-drafted copy

    Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.

  • Auto report

    Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.

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