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Certification Overview
This exam focuses on the three pillars of GitHub Advanced Security: Code Scanning (using CodeQL to find vulnerabilities), Secret Scanning (detecting leaked credentials), and Dependency Management (via Dependabot and Dependency Review). You'll need hands-on knowledge of configuring these tools, interpreting results, remediating findings, and deploying them at enterprise scale.
What This Certification Proves
The GH-500 certification validates your ability to implement and manage GitHub's Advanced Security features to protect code, dependencies, and secrets throughout the development lifecycle. This credential demonstrates proficiency with GHAS tools like CodeQL, Dependabot, and Secret Scanning—increasingly essential capabilities for organizations prioritizing supply chain and application security.
Who Should Take This Exam
Developers and DevOps engineers with 1-3 years of experience who work with GitHub and need to secure their development pipelines. Also suitable for developers transitioning to security-focused roles or teams newly implementing GHAS across their organization. The low difficulty (1.6/5) makes it accessible to those with basic GitHub knowledge seeking foundational security expertise.
Topic Breakdown
14 domains covering 117 questions
| Domain | Questions | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Configure And Use Dependabot And Dependency Review | 29 | 25% |
| Configure And Use Code Scanning With Codeql | 21 | 18% |
| Configure And Use Secret Scanning | 16 | 14% |
| Secret Scanning | 11 | 9% |
| Code Scanning | 9 | 8% |
| Describe The Ghas Security Features And Functionality | 6 | 5% |
| Best Practices And Remediation | 5 | 4% |
| Implement And Manage Secret Scanning | 5 | 4% |
| Implement And Manage Codeql | 4 | 3% |
| Implement And Manage Dependabot | 4 | 3% |
| Dependency Management | 4 | 3% |
| Implement And Manage Github Advanced Security At Scale | 1 | 1% |
| Introduction To Github Advanced Security | 1 | 1% |
| Github Advanced Security Features | 1 | 1% |
Study Plans
Choose a study plan that matches your schedule and experience level
30 Days
Intensive Sprint
Week 1-2
- Master fundamentals: Configure And Use Dependabot And Dependency Review
- Read Microsoft official documentation
- Complete 5 questions daily
Week 3
- Deep dive: Configure And Use Code Scanning With Codeql
- Review weak areas from results
- Take 2 full-length exams
Week 4
- Review all flagged questions
- Timed exams to build stamina
- Final revision of key concepts
60 Days
Balanced Approach
Week 1-2
- Survey all exam domains
- Set up study environment
- Begin with foundational topics
Week 3-4
- Focus: Configure And Use Dependabot And Dependency Review
- Focus: Configure And Use Code Scanning With Codeql
- 3 questions daily
Week 5-6
- Focus: Configure And Use Secret Scanning
- Hands-on labs if applicable
- Review explanations for wrong answers
Week 7-8
- Complete all 123 questions
- Identify and eliminate weak areas
- Take 3 full-length timed tests
90 Days
Comprehensive Study
Month 1
- Learn all exam domains at a comfortable pace
- Build strong foundational knowledge
- 2 questions daily
Month 2
- Deep dive into each domain
- Hands-on practice and labs
- Take weekly timed exams
Month 3
- Work through all 123 questions
- Identify and eliminate weak areas
- Take 3 full-length timed exams
GH-500-Specific Tips
- Set up Dependabot alerts in a real or test repository—understand how to triage, dismiss, and auto-remediate findings rather than just reading about them
- Enable secret scanning and CodeQL code scanning in your own repos to see detection patterns firsthand; review what triggers false positives
- Study Dependabot and Dependency Review workflows side-by-side; know when each tool applies and how they complement each other
- Practice remediating CodeQL findings—focus on understanding *why* CodeQL flags code patterns, not memorizing rule names
- Deep-dive into Secret Scanning patterns and understand enterprise secret storage vs. leaked credentials; know remediation steps when secrets are exposed
- Review GitHub's official GHAS best practices documentation and enterprise deployment guides for scale implementation context
- Work through a GHAS rollout scenario mentally—how would you enable features, set policies, train teams, and measure security improvements?
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Sample Questions
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Which of the following features can be used to enforce passing status checks for code scanning and dependency review workflows?
What is a security policy?
You are managing code scanning alerts for your repository. You receive an alert highlighting a problem with data flow. What do you click for additional context on the alert?
Assuming that no custom patterns are configured, what type of secret is detected by secret scanning?
A secret scanning alert should be closed as "used in tests" when a secret is:
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