Course Overview Of GH-500-GitHub Advanced Security:

The GH-500 module focuses on administering GitHub at scale within enterprise environments, emphasizing advanced configuration, governance, and security practices. This module is designed to help you manage GitHub organizations, users, policies, and integrations effectively across large teams and complex workflows. You’ll explore enterprise account setup, audit logs, SAML/SSO configuration, compliance enforcement, and policy automation. By completing this module, you’ll gain the skills to administer and govern GitHub environments securely, ensuring operational consistency, policy adherence, and scalability across your organization.

After completing the GH 500 certification training, participants will be able to:

  • Configure and enable GitHub Advanced Security features like CodeQL, secret scanning, and dependency review.
  • Automate vulnerability detection as part of your CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
  • Write and manage custom CodeQL queries to tailor code scanning for your organization’s needs.
  • Respond to security alerts and perform remediation within GitHub.
  • Apply and enforce organization-wide security and compliance policies across all repositories.
  • Integrate GitHub security data with external monitoring and risk management tools.

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Key Features of GH-500-GitHub Foundations:

  • Guidance by Certified Security Experts: Learn from experienced instructors with hands-on knowledge of GitHub security tooling and DevSecOps best practices.

  • Interactive Hands-On Labs: Gain real-world experience by enabling and testing Advanced Security features, creating workflows, and remediating security alerts.

  • Enterprise-Focused Use Cases: Explore security scenarios such as secrets management, dependency risk tracking, and enforcing policy-as-code across teams.

  • Integrated CI/CD Security Automation: Learn how to secure the software supply chain by integrating scanning into build and deployment pipelines.

  • Scalable Policy Management: Discover how to enforce standards using reusable configurations and security settings across organizations and repositories.

  • Official Curriculum by Microsoft Learning Partner: Benefit from industry-aligned content developed with GitHub and Microsoft Applied Skills frameworks.

Who should Attend GH-500 Course ?

  • This course is ideal for professionals focused on secure software development, risk reduction, and governance:
  • Security Engineers & DevSecOps Practitioners integrating security into CI/CD pipelines.
  • GitHub Administrators responsible for enforcing organization-wide security standards and policies.
  • Developers aiming to write secure code with immediate feedback and automated vulnerability detection.
  • Compliance & Governance Professionals who need to implement traceable and auditable security workflows.
  • Technical Leads & Architects who must ensure secure development practices across distributed teams.

Pre-requisites of GH-500:

To get the most out of this course, it is recommended that participants have:
  • Solid understanding of Git and GitHub workflows (commits, pull requests, branching).
  • Familiarity with basic security concepts (e.g., secrets, vulnerabilities, least privilege).
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, or other tools).
  • Prior exposure to GitHub repository administration and project collaboration tools.
  • Optional but helpful: Basic knowledge of YAML and understanding of code quality practices.

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    Course Outline of GH-500 - GitHub Advanced Security: Download Course Outline

    • Define GHAS and the importance of its integral features
    • How to utilize GHAS to get the most impact
    • Understand GHAS and its role in the security ecosystem

    • Manage your dependencies on GitHub
    • Dependabot alerts
    • Dependabot security updates
    • Manage Dependabot notifications and reports
    • Dependency review
    • Exercise - Configure Dependabot security updates

    • What is secret scanning?
    • Configure secret scanning
    • Use secret scanning

    • What is code scanning?
    • Enable code scanning with third party tools
    • Configure code scanning
    • Configure code scanning exercise

    • Prepare a database for CodeQL
    • Run CodeQL in a database
    • Understand CodeQL results
    • Troubleshoot CodeQL results

    • What is CodeQL?
    • How does CodeQL analyze code?
    • What is QL?
    • Code scanning and CodeQL
    • Customize your code scanning workflow with CodeQL - Part 1
    • Exercise - Reference a CodeQL query
    • Customize your code scanning workflow with CodeQL - Part 2
    • Use the CodeQL CLI
    • Customize languages and builds for code scanning
    • Exercise - Configure a CodeQL language matrix

    • What is GitHub Advanced Security?
    • Enable GitHub Advanced Security
    • Manage access to GitHub Advanced Security
    • Manage the GitHub Advanced Security features and alerts

    • Setting security policies
    • Create and manage repository rulesets
    • Reporting and logging

    Certification Details:

    • Obtaining the GH-500 GitHub Fundamentals Applied Skills credential validates your foundational knowledge of GitHub’s core features, repository management, and collaboration practices.
    • This certification demonstrates your ability to administer GitHub repositories, manage team permissions, and utilize collaboration tools like Issues, Projects, and Discussions.
    • GH-500 Applied Skills training is an excellent starting point for progressing toward more advanced GitHub, DevOps, or open-source collaboration certifications.
    • Successful candidates will receive an official Microsoft Applied Skills certificate, confirming their proficiency in GitHub administration and product feature usage.
    • Completing the GH-500 assessment equips learners with real-world, job-ready skills for managing secure and scalable projects using GitHub's platform.

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    FAQs:

    It is based on one specific skill, Project based, Scenario-specific ability.

    Yes, many Microsoft Learn courses, including this one, are often available for free.

    Participants will need a computer with internet access and a GitHub Account, Git CLI

    Learners should have a basic understanding of Git, version control concepts, and familiarity with GitHub or similar developer tools.

    You can prepare for the Microsoft GH-500 by exploring GitHub Learn modules, practicing repository and access management, and completing hands-on labs on GitHub features like Issues, Projects, and Branch Protections.

    Yes, Access Microsoft Learn and complete the certification.

    After completing the GH-500 exam, you will receive the Microsoft Credential.

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