GH-100 : GitHub Fundamentals

No prerequisite

Explore GitHub

• Identify the core features of GitHub.
• Learn how to manage repositories.
• Understand the GitHub feed, which includes branches, commits, and pull requests.
• Explore GitHub’s collaborative features by reviewing issues and discussions.
• Recognize how to manage your GitHub notifications and subscriptions.

Explore GitHub administration

• Summarize the organizational structures and permission levels that GitHub admins can use to organize members to control access and security.
• Identify the different technologies that allow administrators to centrally manage access to the repository.
• Describe the technologies required to centrally manage teams and members using existing directory information services.
• Use GitHub itself as an identity provider for authentication and authorization.

Explore GitHub products

• Distinguish between the different types of GitHub accounts: Personal, Organization, and Enterprise.
• Explain each GitHub plan: GitHub Free for personal accounts and organizations, GitHub Pro for person accounts, GitHub Team, and GitHub Enterprise.
• Distinguish between the features associated with accessing GitHub on GitHub Mobile and GitHub Desktop.
• Describe a brief overview of GitHub billing and payments.

Manage a secure repository using GitHub best practices

• Identify GitHub tools and features to establish a secure development strategy.
• Enable vulnerable dependency detection for private repositories.
• Detect and fix outdated dependencies with security vulnerabilities.
• Automate the detection of vulnerable dependencies with Dependabot.
• Add a security policy with a SECURITY.md file.
• Delete a commit exposing sensitive data in a pull request.
• Remove historical commits that expose sensitive data within your repository.

Manage sensitive data and security policies in GitHub

• Create documentation detailing safety recommendations and useful information for employees.
• Set permissions and other rules.
• Automate processes that prevent security breaches.
• Respond to security breaches.

Authenticate and authorize user identities on GitHub

• Describe the authentication and authorization model.
• Understand how to manage user access to your GitHub organization through authorization and authentication tools.
• Identify the identity providers and supported technologies that enable secure access to the repository.
• Understand the implications of enabling SAML single sign-on.
• Identify the authorization and authentication options available, and understand the role of the administrator in enforcing a secure access policy for a GitHub Enterprise instance.
• Describe how users access private information in a GitHub organization.
• Evaluate the benefits of enabling team sync to manage team membership.

Administer GitHub for enterprise support and adoption

• Configure authentication with Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) single sign-on and a connection between Enterprise Server and Enterprise Cloud with GitHub Connect.
• Automate security and version updates for your project’s dependencies, as well as administrative tasks and user interactions with GitHub.
• Identify when to open a ticket with gitHub Enterprise Support to troubleshoot issues.
• Recognize the centralized management capabilities of your GitHub enterprise members through GitHub Enterprise Managed User Accounts (EMUs).

Manage GitHub Actions in the enterprise

• Identify the different tools you can use at the enterprise and organizational level to manage your actions and workflows.
• Evaluate the appropriate executors for your enterprise instance.
• Learn about the different configurations available for self-hosted runners and customize them to your organization’s use case.
• Understand what encrypted secrets are and how to use them in your actions and workflows.

Published on 18/07/2025

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