GH-100 Question #44: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

Question

Which of the following is true about outside collaborators in a GitHub organization?

Options

• AThey are granted explicit access to specific repositories.
• BThey inherit organization-wide policies, such as SSO requirements.
• CThey have access to all private repositories by default.
• DThey appear in the organization's internal member list.

Explanation

Outside collaborators in a GitHub organization are external users (not org members) who receive explicit, per-repository access grants - they must be individually invited to each repository they need, with a specific permission level (read, triage, write, maintain, or admin). This makes A correct: access is always scoped and deliberate, never automatic.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• B - Outside collaborators are exempt from many organization-wide policies, including SAML SSO requirements by default (org members are subject to SSO, not collaborators).
• C - They have zero default access to any repository; every grant must be made explicitly by a repo admin or org owner.
• D - They appear in a separate "Outside collaborators" section of the org's People page, not in the member list - this distinction matters for auditing and billing.

Memory tip: Think of outside collaborators as contractors with a keycard to only one room - they're not on the employee roster, they skip the company-wide badge policies, and they only get in where someone specifically let them in.

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