Free Practice Questions for GitHub Advanced Security (GH-500) Certification
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- 18 Sep 2026
- Question bank created:
- 2 Jul 2026
- Question bank last updated:
- 11 Aug 2026
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Candidates with experience using GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) to secure code, secrets, and dependencies across the software development lifecycle, familiar with GitHub fundamentals, CI/CD, and secure development concepts.
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1: Describe GitHub Security suites, features, and ecosystem
1.1: Understand GitHub Security suites and architecture
- Describe GitHub Security suite structure and navigation - Contrast Code Security, Secret Protection, and Supply Chain Security - Differentiate security feature availability for public repositories vs. enterprise environments - Explain features and benefits of the Security Overview
1.2: Apply secure SDLC and security strategies
- Explain differences and interplay between Secret Protection and Code Security - Describe end-to-end secure SDLC using GitHub Security suites - Compare prevention-first approaches vs. gate-based security strategies - Explain security campaigns and their role in reducing risk
1.3: Detect, manage, and respond to security alerts
- Identify vulnerability and secret detection mechanisms - Choose and act on security alerts (alert management, policies, workflows) - Explain implications and best practices for ignoring or dismissing alerts - Describe developer, security, and admin responsibilities for alerts and remediation
1.4: Manage access, governance, and supply chain security
- Explain alert access management, roles, delegated bypass, and enforcement - Describe supply chain security concepts and alert information across the SDLC
2: Configure and use Secret Protection (formerly secret scanning)
2.1: Enable and configure Secret Protection
- Enable GitHub Secret Protection at the repository and organization levels - Configure Secret Protection settings and feature availability - Contrast Secret Protection behavior for public vs. private/enterprise repositories
2.2: Prevent secret exposure
- Explain Push Protection and how it prevents secrets at the source - Describe validity checks and prioritized alerting for high-confidence secrets
2.3: Manage and respond to Secret Protection alerts
- Describe the Secret Protection alert lifecycle (creation, status, dismissal) - Respond to secret alerts and apply appropriate remediation actions - Explain implications and best practices for dismissing or ignoring alerts
2.4: Control access, policies, and customization
- Explain role-based and delegated bypass policies in Secret Protection - Configure alert recipients and exclusions - Create and manage custom secret patterns
3: Configure and use supply chain security (formerly Dependabot/Dependency Review)
3.1: Understand and manage dependency and supply chain risks
- Comprehensive dependency security (tools, vulnerability databases, SBOMs) - Generate and interpret the dependency graph - SBOM usage: export options, formats, and supply chain context
3.2: Detect, prioritize, and respond to supply chain alerts
- Supply chain alerts and security updates (prioritization, EPSS scoring) - Remediating supply chain alerts through campaigns and pull requests - Auto-dismiss behavior and security campaign configuration
3.3: Secure dependencies during development
- Dependency Review (pre-merge checks, license and compliance validation, configuration) - Advanced dependency update rules (grouping, auto-dismiss, update strategies)
3.4: Configure policies, permissions, and integrations
- Permissions and role-based alert assignment - Workflow management for dependency and supply chain security - External notifications, webhooks, and security integrations
4: Configure and use Code Security (formerly Code Scanning with CodeQL)
4.1: Understand code scanning approaches and tooling
- Native and third-party code scanning options - Choosing between CodeQL and third-party analysis tools - SARIF file ingestion, management, and interoperability
4.2: Set up and configure Code Security
- Enable code security using GitHub Actions or external CI systems - Configure code scanning workflows and workflow templates - Use matrix builds and define appropriate scan frequency
4.3: Analyze, triage, and remediate code scanning results
- Review scan results, including dataflow analysis insights - Alert lifecycles, autofix capabilities, and remediation workflows - Dismissing alerts and managing severity and category classifications
4.4: Optimize and automate Code Security operations
- Advanced configuration and customization - Troubleshooting scan failures and performance issues
5: Security operations: best practices, prioritization, and remediation
5.1: Understand vulnerability context and remediation frameworks
- CVE, CWE, and GitHub Security Advisory concepts - End-to-end remediation workflows across security alerts and advisories
5.2: Prioritize and manage security work at scale
- Defining, prioritizing, and enforcing severity and remediation rulesets - Campaign-based remediation strategies and bulk alert management - Automated alert dismissal and documentation practices
5.3: Customize and optimize security detection
- Customizing CodeQL query suites and language-specific analysis - Tailoring security detection to organizational risk profiles
5.4: Collaborate across roles and enforce governance
- Security roles, delegated exceptions, and alert ownership - Collaboration on alerts and security campaigns across teams - Cross-suite rulesets, policies, and enforcement mechanisms
5.5: Shift left and strengthen preventive security
- Early vulnerability prevention through push protection, dependency scanning, and pre-merge analysis
6: GitHub Security suites administration
6.1: Roll out and manage security features at scale
- Enable GitHub Security Suites at enterprise, organization, and repository levels - Understand feature availability and differences across GitHub Enterprise Cloud and GitHub Enterprise Server
6.2: Configure security features and defaults
- Enable Code Security (CodeQL), Secret Protection, and Supply Chain Security - Define default configurations and inheritance behavior
6.3: Define governance, access, and Code Security workflows
- Define enterprise and organization security policies and rulesets - Configure enforcement boundaries, bypass permissions, and exceptions - Define administrator, security manager, and developer roles - Configure permissions for managing and dismissing security alerts - Enable and configure default or approved custom CodeQL workflows - Understand APIs and automation methods for large-scale security configuration and governance
6.4: Manage CodeQL and security automation
- Enable and configure default or approved custom CodeQL workflows - Understand available APIs and automation methods for large-scale security configuration and governance
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