GitHub Advanced Security Exam Questions *2026*

The GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) certification validates your ability to implement, manage, and optimize security controls directly within the software development lifecycle using GitHub’s native security platform. This course is your complete, exam-aligned guide to configuring code scanning, secret scanning, dependency management, CodeQL analysis, and enterprise-level security governance—exactly what you need to confidently pass the GitHub Advanced Security certification exam.

Designed for developers, security engineers, DevSecOps professionals, and platform administrators, this course delivers clear, practical explanations that connect GitHub security features with real-world implementation. You’ll learn how to reduce risk in repositories, automate vulnerability detection, enforce secure development practices, and manage security at scale—so you’re not just enabling features, you’re thinking like the exam (and like a real DevSecOps professional).

This course is aligned to the official GitHub Advanced Security blueprint and covers all seven domains in depth:

Domain 1: Describe the GHAS Security Features and Functionality (10%)

Learn how GitHub Advanced Security enhances the development lifecycle. You’ll understand how code scanning, secret scanning, and dependency insights integrate into GitHub workflows, and how GHAS improves visibility, automation, and risk reduction across repositories and organizations.

Domain 2: Configure and Use Secret Scanning (10%)

Build confidence detecting and preventing credential leaks. You’ll configure secret scanning and push protection, interpret alerts, manage remediation workflows, and reduce exposure risks across repositories.

Domain 3: Configure and Use Dependency Management (15%)

Learn how to manage open-source dependency risks. You’ll work with Dependabot alerts and security updates, understand dependency graphs, and prioritize remediation strategies based on severity and impact.

Domain 4: Configure and Use Code Scanning (15%)

Master automated static analysis within GitHub. You’ll configure code scanning workflows, integrate third-party scanning tools, interpret results, and manage findings across branches and pull requests.

Domain 5: Use Code Scanning with CodeQL (20%)

Develop deeper expertise using CodeQL for advanced security analysis. You’ll understand query structure, scanning workflows, customization, and how to tune results to reduce false positives while improving detection accuracy.

Domain 6: Describe GitHub Advanced Security Best Practices (20%)

Learn DevSecOps best practices for integrating security into CI/CD pipelines. You’ll understand branch protection rules, security policies, workflow governance, least privilege automation, and strategies for maintaining a secure SDLC at scale.

Domain 7: Configure GitHub Advanced Security Tools in GitHub Enterprise (10%)

Understand how GHAS operates in enterprise environments. You’ll configure security settings at organization level, manage permissions, enforce policies, monitor dashboards, and ensure visibility and compliance across teams.

By the End of This Course, You Will Be Able To:

Configure and manage GitHub Advanced Security across repositories

Detect and remediate secrets, vulnerabilities, and insecure code

Implement secure dependency management with automated updates

Use CodeQL effectively for advanced code analysis

Enforce secure development best practices across teams

Manage GHAS securely within GitHub Enterprise environments

Recognize exam patterns and confidently answer scenario-based certification questions

This course is ideal for learners who want to earn the GitHub Advanced Security certification and gain practical DevSecOps skills that directly translate into secure software development and enterprise security roles.