You can see it againUnder pressure people bring back shapes and positions long after the wording has gone.
Picture superiority · Shepard 1967, Standing 1973
GITHUBGitHub Actions Certification
The GitHub Actions Certification validates your proficiency in automating workflows and accelerating software development with GitHub Actions. It is designed for developers and DevOps practitioners who build, streamline, and optimize CI/CD pipelines. Earning this certification demonstrates that you can turn repetitive tasks into reliable, automated workflows that speed up delivery.
DeliveryMicrosoft
Free questions295
Content last reviewed 30 July 2026 · Up to date
The certification
What GH-200 proves, and what it asks of you
What this certification covers, who it is written for, and what the exam itself looks like on the day.
5domains
14objectives
104concepts
What it is
What this certification is
What it validates, who it is written for, and the experience it assumes.
About this certification
The GitHub Actions Certification (GH-200) validates your ability to automate workflows and accelerate development using GitHub Actions. It covers streamlining workflows, automating tasks, and optimizing software pipelines, confirming that you can design and maintain efficient automation that keeps delivery fast and reliable.
Earning this certification shows you understand how to model, build, and troubleshoot workflows that respond to repository events, manage dependencies and secrets, and integrate with the broader GitHub ecosystem. It is a practical credential for anyone who wants to prove they can use GitHub Actions to reduce manual effort and ship software more consistently.
Who it’s for
This certification is for developers, DevOps engineers, and automation specialists who build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions. It suits practitioners who already automate workflows and want to validate their ability to streamline and optimize software delivery. You should be comfortable writing YAML, working with Git and GitHub repositories, and reasoning about how events, jobs, and runners fit together to produce reliable automation.
Recommended experience
Hands-on experience building and maintaining GitHub Actions workflows, including writing YAML, managing secrets, and troubleshooting pipeline failures. Creating and modifying GitHub Actions workflows in YAML; Using events, jobs, steps, and runners to model automation; Managing secrets, environments, and permissions within workflows; Troubleshooting and optimizing workflow performance and reliability
The syllabus
What you’ll learn
Every domain and objective GitHub measures, with the weight they carry on the exam.
The official GitHub exam outline · checked 30 July 2026 · See the source
Author and manage workflows
- Configure workflow triggers and events
- Design and implement workflow structure
- Manage workflow execution and outputs
Consume and troubleshoot workflows
- Interpret workflow behavior and results
- Access workflow artifacts and logs
- Use and manage workflow templates
Author and maintain actions
- Create and troubleshoot custom actions
- Define action structure and metadata
- Distribute and maintain actions
Manage GitHub Actions for the enterprise
- Distribute and govern actions and workflows
- Manage runners at scale
- Manage encrypted secrets and variables
Secure and optimize automation
- Implement security best practices
- Optimize workflow performance and cost
On the day
The exam itself
Everything GitHub publishes about sitting it, and nothing we inferred.
Prerequisites
No mandatory prerequisites — this certification has no required predecessor exam or credential.
Exam codeGH-200
CertificationGitHub Actions Certification
DeliveryMicrosoft
LanguagesEnglish
After you pass
Where this credential goes next
The path GitHub lays out, how the credential is kept, and where to book.
Step-by-step path to GitHub Actions Certification
Credential earnedGitHub Actions Certification Certification Renewal and maintenance
GitHub certifications expire annually and require renewal. Stay current with the latest technologies and maintain your certification.
Learn more about renewal requirements Lifecycle status
This certification is currently active and available. GitHub maintains this certification to validate current skills and industry relevance.
Exam status: ActiveMaintained by GitHub
Exam registration
Register for the exam through Microsoft, GitHub’s authorized testing partner.
Schedule your examVisit the official GitHub certification page for exam policies and requirements.
View the official pageYour coach
And when you are serious, your coach Pip takes over
Your coach in the app reads what you have answered with the book closed and tells you one thing to do tonight. It will not count an answer you gave with the page open, and it will tell you when you are not ready.
See how the coach worksBefore you book
Questions people ask
How does the GitHub Actions Certification relate to the GitHub Foundations Certification?
The GitHub Foundations Certification covers foundational GitHub concepts, while the GitHub Actions Certification focuses specifically on automating workflows and optimizing pipelines. They are separate credentials, and earning Foundations is not a prerequisite for Actions.
Is there a hands-on or lab component in the GH-200 exam?
The official exam description does not mention a hands-on or lab component. The exam is delivered online and proctored, focusing on the skills measured in the published domains.
What job roles does the GitHub Actions Certification map to?
The certification is aimed at developers and DevOps practitioners who build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automate tasks, and optimize software delivery workflows using GitHub Actions.
Can I renew the GitHub Actions Certification by passing a different GitHub exam?
GitHub certifications expire annually and require renewal. The official documentation does not specify whether passing another GitHub exam renews this certification automatically.
Where can I register for the GH-200 exam?
You can register through the GitHub Certification Registration page, which links to the exam scheduling platform. The official GitHub documentation provides the registration link.
Information freshness · Content last reviewed on 2026-07-30 Up to date
Practice free questions 295 questions, free, no account needed.
The curriculum
The whole exam, mapped and written
Every domain, every objective, and every concept GitHub measures — each one written out.
5domains
14objectives
104concepts
65free pages
The domains, and what sits inside them
Every objective below is a page you can open and practise now, without an account.
The official GitHub exam outline · checked 30 July 2026 · See the source
1Author and manage workflows51 questions
2Consume and troubleshoot workflows62 questions
3Author and maintain actions59 questions
4Manage GitHub Actions for the enterprise73 questions
5Secure and optimize automation50 questions
Not a table of contents
Every line on this map already opens
In front of every objective the practice pages are already there, free and without an account. This is one objective, opened.
Configure workflow triggers and events3 pagesOpen →
Free in front of it
13 questions on this objective, five to a page. Every range above is a real page, open now, with no account.
Reading the map is not the same as knowing the ground
The curriculum tells you what is on the exam. Proving you know it is a different job — and it is the one the closed-book run does.
Free questions
295 questions. No account, no card.
The whole bank is open. 5 questions to a page, every answer explained, and a discussion thread on each one.
295questions
65pages
14objectives
Freealways
Browse by domain
Every objective, and every page range, is a link — so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
1Author and manage workflows51 questions
2Consume and troubleshoot workflows62 questions
3Author and maintain actions59 questions
4Manage GitHub Actions for the enterprise73 questions
What a practice page gives you
1Five to a page
Short enough to finish, long enough to matter.
2Every answer explained
Not only which one is right — why the others are wrong.
3A discussion on each
Ask, answer, and vote. Every question has its own thread.
A question, and the idea behind it
Every question comes from a concept
These are not trivia. Each one is written against a concept in the book, so when you get one wrong there is somewhere to go and find out why.
The visual book
See it once. Carry it into the exam.
The pages shown here come from our AI-900 book — an example of how each concept is written in plain language and, where the idea needs one, drawn as a full page you can take in at a glance.
104concepts
295free questions
Why a picture, and not another paragraph
Three reasons, and each one is a real finding rather than a slogan.
You can see it againThe whole idea at onceWhere it starts, what happens in the middle, what comes out, and the mistake to avoid.
Multimedia principle · MayerThe look-alikes sit togetherThe pairs the exam tests are drawn side by side, so the difference is seen, not told.
Dual coding · PaivioWhat one page is made of
You are never asked to read a poster here — only to see how one is built. After that, every other page is legible at a glance.
1A numbered strip on top
The idea as a sequence, followed with a finger before a word is read.
2Panels for the parts
What it is, how the machine learns it, when it is the right tool.
3The trap, framed
The distinction the exam tests, given its own box instead of buried in prose.
4One line at the bottom
The sentence to carry into the exam room.
Open book, on purpose
Answer it with the picture beside you
This is the part that teaches. The illustration and the written explanation stay where they are while you work, so a scenario stops being a memory test and becomes something you can simply look at.
It teaches · it does not count
A smartphone uses AI to unlock when the owner looks at the camera. Which AI capability is being used?
AImage classification
BFacial recognition
COptical character recognition
DObject detection
Look at the five steps. Detect finds a face, align straightens it, encode turns it into numbers, search compares it with a stored face, and decide answers one question: is this the same person? Classification would only say “a face”. Detection would only draw a box. Neither decides whose.
Then the page shuts, and it starts counting
The same questions come back with the book closed — that run is the one that counts. After it, your coach picks one thing for tonight, sized to the time you have, and brings pages back before you lose them.
Testing effect · Roediger & Karpicke 2006 · spacing effect · Cepeda et al. 2006
Official resources
Straight from GitHub
Where the exam is defined, scheduled and scored.
2official links
104concepts mapped
The source
GitHub’s own pages
We link to them rather than repeat them, so nothing here goes stale behind them.
Checked against the source
Every objective on the official GitHub outline already has questions here
We build from the official skills outline, not from a summary of it — 14 objectives, 104 concepts written under them, and free questions against every one. When GitHub changes the outline, this page changes with it.
14objectives on the outline→104concepts written→295free questions
An official page tells you what will be asked. It cannot tell you what you will get right.
That is the only question worth answering the night before, and no link answers it. You answer it by taking the questions with the book closed, and seeing what comes back.