Question 1

What is the GH-200 certification?

Accepted Answer

GH-200 is GitHub's Actions certification. It validates that you can automate software delivery with GitHub Actions end to end: authoring and maintaining workflows, building and publishing custom actions, running Actions at enterprise scale, and securing the supply chain around all of it.

Question 2

How long is the GH-200 exam and what is the passing score?

Accepted Answer

The exam runs 100 minutes and is scored out of 1000, with 700 required to pass. Microsoft does not publish a fixed question count, but most role-based exams sit in the 40–60 range. It is scheduled through Pearson VUE.

Question 3

What changed in the January 2026 GH-200 update?

Accepted Answer

The blueprint was reorganized into five domains and every objective was reworded, with newer material added that older prep books miss entirely: YAML anchors and merge keys, immutable actions and version pinning, OIDC federation to cloud providers, artifact attestations and build provenance, and service containers. If your study material predates 2026, those are the likeliest gaps.

Question 4

Should I take GH-900 before GH-200?

Accepted Answer

It helps but is not required. GH-900 Foundations establishes the repository, collaboration and permissions model that GH-200 assumes you already have. If you work in GitHub daily you can go straight to GH-200; if you are newer to the platform, Foundations first makes the Actions material land faster.

Question 5

Is GH-200 all multiple choice?

Accepted Answer

No. Alongside multiple-choice and multi-select items you should expect interactive question types — drag-and-drop, ordered lists, and active-screen items that ask you to complete a YAML snippet. GitHub publishes an exam sandbox so you can practise the interface before test day.

Question 6

What is the GH-300 certification?

Accepted Answer

GH-300 is GitHub's Copilot certification. It validates that you can use Copilot effectively across its surfaces and, just as importantly, that you understand how it handles your data, where its limits are, and how an organization configures it safely.

Question 7

How long is the GH-300 exam and what is the passing score?

Accepted Answer

The exam runs 100 minutes with roughly 60 questions, and the passing threshold is 70%.

Question 8

Is GH-300 only for developers?

Accepted Answer

No, and that surprises people. A meaningful part of the exam covers organization-wide settings: policy management, content exclusions, audit log events and managing subscriptions through the REST API. Administrators rolling Copilot out across a company are squarely in scope alongside the developers using it.

Question 9

Do I need to memorize prompts to pass?

Accepted Answer

No. The prompt-engineering objectives test principles rather than recipes: how Copilot assembles context, when zero-shot versus few-shot phrasing helps, and how chat history and instruction files change what you get back. Understanding why a prompt works travels further than memorizing one that did.

Question 10

What does the exam cover besides using Copilot?

Accepted Answer

Six areas: using Copilot features, using it responsibly, understanding its data handling and architecture, prompt engineering and context crafting, improving developer productivity, and configuring privacy, content exclusions and safeguards. Responsible use and data handling together carry real weight, so they are not sections to skim.

Question 11

Do I need a paid Copilot subscription to prepare?

Accepted Answer

Hands-on time helps a great deal, particularly for the IDE, CLI and agent-mode objectives, and GitHub offers free Copilot access at a limited tier as well as free access for verified students and maintainers. The governance and data-architecture objectives can be studied without a subscription.

Question 12

What is the GH-900 GitHub Foundations certification?

Accepted Answer

GH-900 is the entry point to the GitHub certification family. It validates foundational knowledge of Git and GitHub: version control concepts, repositories, the GitHub Flow, collaboration with issues and pull requests, project management, security basics, and the open-source community. No prerequisites are required.

Question 13

Is GitHub Foundations worth it for non-developers?

Accepted Answer

Yes — the exam is explicitly aimed at both developers and non-developers who work inside GitHub, such as project managers, technical writers, and administrators. It tests recognition and understanding of the platform rather than hands-on coding.

Question 14

Should I take GH-900 before GH-300?

Accepted Answer

If you are new to GitHub, yes. GH-900 covers the Git and collaboration fundamentals that GH-300 assumes, so Foundations first then Copilot is the natural progression — though there is no formal prerequisite and experienced developers can go straight to GH-300.

GitHub Certification Exam Prep

About GitHub Certifications

All GitHub Certifications

Beginner

[GH-900] GitHub Foundations

Intermediate

[GH-200] GitHub Actions

[GH-300] GitHub Copilot

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Key Topic Areas

Git and GitHub Basics

Working with Repositories

Collaboration on GitHub

Modern Development Practices

Project Management

Privacy, Security and Administration

The GitHub Community

Author and Manage Workflows

Consume and Troubleshoot Workflows

Author and Maintain Actions

Manage GitHub Actions for the Enterprise

Secure and Optimize Automation

Copilot Features and Surfaces

Responsible AI Use

Data Handling and Architecture

Prompt Engineering and Context

Developer Productivity

Privacy, Policies and Safeguards

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