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GH-ADMIN
Advanced certification for managing GitHub Enterprise, user identities, security policies, and organization administration.
Exam Details
Official GH-ADMIN exam format
The GitHub Administration (GH-ADMIN) is an industry-recognized credential administered by Github. The official exam features 100 questions within a 120-minute testing session, requiring a passing score of 720/1000 (72%). BetaStudy provides 3,000+ vetted practice questions mapped directly across all 7 syllabus domains with comprehensive answer rationales, timed exam simulations, and weak-area diagnostics.
Exam Domains
The GitHub Administration exam covers 7 domains with different weight percentages
Domain 1: Domain 1: Support GitHub Enterprise for users and key stakeholders
14%Focuses on supporting users and stakeholders in the GitHub Enterprise environment.
- Distinguish problems that can be solved by an administrator from those that need GitHub Support
- Generate support bundles and diagnostics
- Utilization of GitHub’s products and services
- Standards for developer workflows
- Tooling ecosystem at the enterprise
- Enterprise CI/CD strategy
- GitHub APIs for administrators
- GitHub Marketplace assets
- GitHub Apps vs Actions
- Benefits and risks of apps and actions
Domain 2: Domain 2: Manage user identities and GitHub authentication
14%Covers user identity management and authentication processes.
- SAML single sign-on (SSO) implications
- Enabling and enforcing SAML SSO
- Two-factor authentication (2FA)
- Identity providers selection
- Identity management and authorization
- Consequences of user membership
- Authentication and authorization model
- Supported SCIM providers
- SCIM protocol and Team synchronization
Domain 3: Domain 3: Describe how GitHub is deployed, distributed, and licensed
14%Focuses on the deployment and licensing models of GitHub.
- Capabilities of GHES, GHEC, and GHAE
- GitHub Enterprise Cloud (GHEC)
- GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES)
- Enterprise permissions and policies
- Single vs multiple organization deployment
- Default permissions settings
- Team sync through AD
- Adjusting enterprise policies
- Billing for products
- License usage statistics
- Metered product consumption
Domain 4: Domain 4: Manage access and permissions based on membership
14%Covers access control and permissions management.
- Enterprise permissions and policies
- Defining a GitHub organization
- Roles of organization members
- Organization member vs outside collaborator
- Minimum required permissions
- Benefits of creating a new organization
- Team permissions
- Defining Teams in GitHub
- Permission models
- Audit log APIs usage
- Security and compliance concepts
- Auditing reports
Domain 5: Domain 5: Enable secure software development and ensure compliance
14%Focuses on security practices and compliance in software development.
- Enterprise security posture
- Scrubbing sensitive data
- Policy selection based on control requirements
- Organization and enterprise policies
- Repository permissions
- User actions based on permissions
- Repository membership options
- Audit access to repositories
- Security features of GitHub repositories
- Vulnerability definitions
- Importance of secret scanning
- Automated code scanning
- Dependency graph importance
- Security advisories
- Dependabot usage
- Security vulnerability alerts
- Security response plan
- SSH and Deploy keys usage
- Access tokens
- GitHub Apps and OAuth Apps
- Machine accounts vs GitHub Apps
- User-created GitHub Apps approval
- Enterprise managed users (EMU)
Domain 6: Domain 6: Manage GitHub Actions
14%Focuses on managing GitHub Actions and workflows.
- Distributing actions and workflows
- Managing reusable components
- Controlling access to actions
- Organizational use policies for GitHub Actions
- Managing runners for the enterprise
- IP allow lists for runners
- Self-hosted runners
- Selecting appropriate runners
- Configuring self-hosted runners
- Monitoring and troubleshooting runners
- Managing encrypted secrets
- Accessing and sharing GitHub Packages
- Differences between GitHub Packages and releases
Domain 7: Domain 7: Manage GitHub Packages
14%Covers the management of GitHub Packages.
- Supported GitHub Packages
- Accessing and writing GitHub Packages
- Using GitHub Packages in workflows
- Use cases for GitHub Packages and releases
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