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Program Outline

GH-500T00SecurityIntermediateGitHub

GitHub Advanced Security

GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) plays a crucial role in enhancing the security posture of software development projects on GitHub. It provides a comprehensive set of tools and features designed to identify and address security vulnerabilities throughout the development lifecycle. By integrating security directly into the development process with GHAS, your team can build more secure and reliable software. The course will explore how to utilize GHAS to maximize security impact and understand GHAS and its role in the security ecosystem.

Role-Based Certification PrepTrack: GitHub Advanced SecurityOfficial Source: Microsoft Learn

Delivery

Virtual, On-site, or Hybrid

Duration

1 day

Product

GitHub

Role

Administrator

Lab-Based DeliveryCustomizable for TeamsOfficially Aligned: Microsoft Learn

Best Fit

AdministratorDevOpsCertification ReadinessTailored Team Delivery

Audience Profile

Who This Program Is For

This course in intended for students who want to understand and implement advanced security practices with the help of GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS). They will learn how to significantly enhance software development processes and create a more resilient and secure development ecosystem using developer-first solutions to unlock the ability to keep code, supply chain, and secrets secure before you push to production. They will learn how GHAS gives security teams visibility into the cross-organizational security posture and supply chain and unparalleled access to curated security intelligence from millions of developers and security researchers around the world.

Overview

Program Summary

Candidates for this exam have experience using GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) to secure code, secrets, and dependencies across the software development lifecycle.

Course Outline

Complete Module Sequence

Review the full module sequence for this program, including the primary topic coverage in each module where available.

1

Module 1

GitHub Advanced Security Part 1 of 2

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Learn how to secure your code with advanced security features at every stage of your development lifecycle. GitHub Advanced Security is an add-on to GitHub Enterprise that allows you to use security features, such as secret scanning, code scanning, and dependency management on your private repositories.

  • Introduction to GitHub Advanced Security
  • Configure Dependabot security updates on your GitHub repo
  • Configure and use secret scanning in your GitHub repository
  • Configure code scanning on GitHub
2

Module 2

GitHub Advanced Security Part 2 of 2

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Learn how to secure your code with advanced security features at every stage of your development lifecycle. GitHub Advanced Security is an add-on to GitHub Enterprise that allows you to use security features, such as secret scanning, code scanning, and dependency management on your private repositories. This is the second learning path out of two learning paths of GHAS.

  • Identify security vulnerabilities in your codebase by using CodeQL
  • Code scanning with GitHub CodeQL
  • GitHub administration for GitHub Advanced Security
  • Manage sensitive data and security policies within GitHub

Coverage Areas

Topic Coverage

Coverage Item 1

Domain 1: Describe GitHub Security Suites, Features, and Ecosystem (15-20%)

Coverage Item 2

Domain 2: Configure and Use Secret Protection (formerly secret scanning) (15-20%)

Coverage Item 3

Domain 3: Configure and Use Supply Chain Security (formerly Dependabot/Dependency Review) (15-20%)

Coverage Item 4

Domain 4: Configure and Use Code Security (formerly Code Scanning with CodeQL) (10-15%)

Coverage Item 5

Domain 5: Security Operations: Best Practices, Prioritization, and Remediation (15-20%)

Coverage Item 6

Domain 6: GitHub Security Suites Administration (10-15%)

Customization

Adapt This Program for Your Team

We can adapt this program around your team structure, platform priorities, delivery goals, and the scenarios your people need to work through in practice.

  • Align labs to your Microsoft tenant and workload scenarios
  • Add readiness checks and exam preparation reviews
  • Extend delivery with role-specific implementation workshops

Engagement Confidence

A direct, founder-led review before scope, delivery model, and commercial terms are proposed.

Response window

< 1 business day

Client coverage

India + global teams

Engagement format

Virtual, on-site, hybrid