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Microsoft GH-100 Exam Overview :

Exam Name: GitHub Administration
Exam Code: GH-100
Certifications: Microsoft GitHub Certifications
Actual Exam Duration: 100 minutes
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Microsoft GH-100 Exam Objectives :

Section Weight Objectives
Support GitHub Enterprise for users and key stakeholders 15% Support GitHub Enterprise for users and key stakeholders
Distinguish problems that can be solved by an administrator from those that need GitHub Support

Describe how to generate support bundles and diagnostics

Describe how GitHub’s products and services are used within the enterprise to identify underutilized features, integrations in use, most active teams, and repositories

Recommend standards for developer workflows, including code collaboration (fork-and-pull versus branching), branching, branch protection rules, code owners, the code review process, automation, and release strategy

Explain the tooling ecosystem at the enterprise

Explain the enterprise’s CI/CD strategy

Discuss how to recommend tooling and workflows to teams within an enterprise

Explain how GitHub APIs can be used to extend the capabilities of the administrator from the user interface, such as querying or storing the audit log

Locate an asset from the GitHub Marketplace for a specific need (i.e., find the Azure Pipelines GitHub App in the Marketplace, install it, and configure it to deploy your code)

Contrast a GitHub App and an action (i.e., their permissions, how they’re built, how they’re consumed)

List the benefits and risks of using apps and actions from the GitHub Marketplace
Manage user identities and GitHub authentication 20% Manage user identities and GitHub authentication
List the implications of enabling SAML single sign-on (SSO) for an individual organization versus all organizations in an enterprise account

List the steps to enable and enforce SAML SSO for a single organization and multiple organizations using enterprise accounts

Explain how to require two-factor authentication (2FA) for an organization

Explain how to choose supported identity providers

Describe how identity management and authorization works on GitHub

List the consequences of a user’s membership in the instance, an organization, or multiple organizations

Describe the authentication and authorization model (specifically, how users get to the system, and how they’re granted access to specific things within GitHub)

List the supported SCIM providers (Azure, Okta, self-created)

Describe how the SCIM protocol works and how GitHub supports it

Describe how Team synchronization works

Contrast team synchronization and SCIM
Describe how GitHub is deployed, distributed, and licensed 5% Contrast the capabilities of GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES), GitHub Enterprise Cloud (GHEC), and GitHub AE (GHAE)
Describe GitHub Enterprise Cloud (GHEC)

Describe GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES)

Describe GitHub AE

Differentiate how products are billed, including seat licenses, GitHub Actions, and GitHub Packages
Describe pricing for GitHub Actions

Describe pricing and support options for organizations

Describe how to find statistics of license usage for a specific organization

Describe how to find statistics of license usage for machine accounts and peripheral services

Explain the consumption of metered products given a report (i.e., GitHub Actions minutes or storage for GitHub Packages)
Manage access and permissions based on membership 20% Define a GitHub organization
Explain the benefits and costs of deploying a single organization versus multiple organizations

Describe how to set default read permissions versus default write permissions across organizations

Describe Team sync through AD

Explain maintainability; writing scripts against multiple orgs and multiple access rights

Describe how to adjust enterprise policies and organization permissions in alignment with a company’s trust and control position

Describe enterprise permissions and policies
Define a GitHub organization

List the possible roles of an organization member

Contrast permissions for organization members, owners, and billing managers

Describe the di?erence between being an organization member and an outside collaborator

List the consequences of a user’s membership in an instance or organization

Explain how to give a user the minimum required permissions for repository, organization, or team access.

List the benefits and the drawbacks of creating a new organization

Describe team permissions
Define Teams in a GitHub organization

List the possible roles of a team member

Describe the di?erent permission models

Repository permissions
Explain the actions of a user given a list of their permissions, such as repository role, team membership, or organization membership (https://github.com/organizations/<ORG_NAME>/settings/member_privileges)

List the repository membership options

Explain audit access to a repository
Enable secure software development and ensure compliance 15% Enable secure software development and ensure compliance
Explain how GitHub supports the enterprise’s security posture

Describe scrubbing sensitive data from a Git repository (filter-branch/BFG)

Describe scrubbing sensitive data from GitHub (contacting support)

Explain how to choose a policy based on how much control is required

Explain the impacts of choosing a specific set of policies

Define organization policies

Define enterprise policies

Describe how to use the audit log APIs (Rest and GraphQL) to explain a missing asset
Define the use case for audit logs

Describe security and compliance concepts with GitHub

Explain how to provide reports for auditing

Define and explain the importance of the security features of a GitHub repository
Explain the importance of a security policy

Define a vulnerability

Describe a vulnerable dependency

Explain the importance of secret scanning

Explain the importance of code scanning

Describe automated code scanning (CodeQL)

Explain the dependency graph

Explain the importance of a security advisory

Describe Dependabot

Detect and fix outdated dependencies with security vulnerabilities

Describe security vulnerability alerts

Create and implement a security response plan that addresses sensitive data on a GitHub repository

Describe how to use SSH keys and Deploy keys to access repository data

API access and integrations
List supported access tokens (e.g. PAT, Installation Tokens, OAuth and GitHub app OAuth tokens, Device Tokens, Refresh tokens)

Explain how to find a token’s rate limits

Describe GitHub Apps, their repository permissions, user permissions, and event subscriptions

Describe OAuth Apps, their permissions, and event subscriptions

Contrast the use of a personal access token (PAT) or a GitHub App for authenticating a machine account

Describe the use of machine accounts versus GitHub apps

Explain how to approve or deny user-created GitHub Apps and OAuth apps based on a security policy

Define an enterprise managed user (EMU)
Manage GitHub Actions 20% Distribute actions and workflows to the enterprise
Identify reuse templates for actions and workflows

Define an approach for managing and leveraging reusable components (i.e., repos for storage, naming conventions for files/folders, plans for ongoing maintenance)

Define how to distribute actions for an enterprise

Explain how to control access to actions within the enterprise

Configure organizational use policies for GitHub Actions

Manage runners for the enterprise
Describe the effects of configuring IP allow lists on GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners

Configure IP allow lists on internal applications and systems to allow interaction with GitHub-hosted runners

List the effects and potential abuse vectors of enabling self-hosted runners on public repositories

Select appropriate runners to support workloads (i.e., using a self-hosted versus GitHub-hosted runner, choosing supported operating systems)

Contrast GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners

Configure self-hosted runners for enterprise use (i.e., including proxies, labels, networking)

Manage self-hosted runners using groups (i.e., managing access, moving runners into and between groups)

Monitor, troubleshoot, and update self-hosted runners

Manage encrypted secrets in the enterprise
Identify the scope of encrypted secrets

Explain how to access encrypted secrets within actions and workflows

Explain how to manage organization-level encrypted secrets

Describe how to manage repository-level encrypted secrets

Describe how to use third-party vaults
Manage GitHub Packages 5% Describe which GitHub Packages are supported

Describe how to access, write, and share GitHub Packages

Describe how to use GitHub Packages in workflows (i.e., with GitHub Actions or other CI/CD tools)

Explain the differences and use cases between GitHub Packages and releases
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