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 Copilot Certification
The GitHub Copilot Certification validates your ability to optimize software development workflows with GitHub Copilot. It covers responsible AI, Copilot plans and features, prompt engineering, AI developer use cases, testing with Copilot, and privacy and exclusions. Earning this certification demonstrates that you can effectively integrate AI-assisted development into your daily work, boosting productivity and code quality.
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Content last reviewed 30 July 2026 · Up to date
The certification
What GH-300 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.
6domains
14objectives
85concepts
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 Copilot Certification (GH-300) is designed for developers and teams who want to prove their expertise in using GitHub Copilot to accelerate and improve software development. This certification validates your understanding of responsible AI practices, Copilot's plans and features, how to craft effective prompts, and how to apply Copilot across real-world development scenarios.
By earning this certification, you demonstrate that you can harness AI to streamline workflows, enhance code quality, and foster innovation. The exam covers key areas such as Copilot data and functionality, privacy and exclusions, and testing with Copilot, ensuring you are well-equipped to lead AI-driven development initiatives in your organization.
Who it’s for
This certification is for developers, technical leads, and AI enthusiasts who use GitHub Copilot in their daily work and want to validate their skills in AI-assisted development. It is also suitable for teams adopting Copilot and seeking to ensure their members have a consistent, high-level understanding of its capabilities and best practices. Candidates should have hands-on experience with GitHub Copilot and a solid understanding of software development workflows. The certification is ideal for those who want to demonstrate their ability to optimize development processes using AI, from prompt engineering to testing and privacy considerations.
Recommended experience
Hands-on experience with GitHub Copilot and a solid understanding of software development workflows. Practical experience using GitHub Copilot in development projects; Familiarity with GitHub repositories, pull requests, and collaboration workflows; Understanding of AI concepts and responsible AI practices; Basic knowledge of prompt engineering and its application in code generation
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
Use GitHub Copilot responsibly
- Understand responsible AI principles
- Validate and operate AI tools
Use GitHub Copilot features
- Use GitHub Copilot in the IDE
- Use GitHub Copilot CLI
- Use GitHub Copilot features and capabilities
- Manage organization-wide settings and policies
Understand GitHub Copilot data and architecture
- Describe data handling and flow
- Understand lifecycle and limitations
Apply prompt engineering and context crafting
- Craft effective prompts
- Engineer prompts for performance
Improve developer productivity with GitHub Copilot
- Enhance productivity and code quality
- Support testing and security
Configure privacy, content exclusions, and safeguards
- Manage privacy settings and exclusions
- Apply safeguards and troubleshoot
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-300
CertificationGitHub Copilot Certification
DeliveryMicrosoft
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 Copilot Certification
Credential earnedGitHub Copilot Certification Certification Renewal and maintenance
GitHub certifications expire annually and require renewal. Renewal is completed by passing a free online assessment on Microsoft Learn. 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.
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And when you are serious, your coach Pip takes over
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Questions people ask
How does the GitHub Copilot Certification relate to other GitHub certifications?
The GitHub Copilot Certification is part of the GitHub Certifications program, which also includes Foundations, Actions, Advanced Security, and Administration certifications. Each certification validates expertise in a specific GitHub domain, and they can be earned independently.
Do I need to earn a lower-level GitHub certification before taking GH-300?
No. GitHub does not require any prerequisite certifications for the Copilot Certification. You can register for the exam directly if you have the necessary skills.
Is the GH-300 exam hands-on or lab-based?
The official documentation does not specify a hands-on or lab-based component for the GH-300 exam. It is likely a knowledge-based exam, but candidates should refer to the official exam page for the most current format details.
What is the retake policy for the GH-300 exam?
The official documentation does not provide specific retake policy details for the GH-300 exam. Candidates should check the registration page or contact the exam provider for information on retake policies and waiting periods.
What job roles does the GitHub Copilot Certification map to?
The certification is designed for developers, technical leads, and AI enthusiasts who use GitHub Copilot in their daily work. It validates skills relevant to roles focused on AI-assisted development and software development optimization.
Can I recertify by passing a different GitHub exam?
GitHub certifications expire annually and require renewal. The renewal process involves passing a free online assessment on Microsoft Learn, not passing a different exam. However, earning a higher-level certification may also renew lower-level ones, but this is not explicitly stated for the Copilot Certification.
Are there any regional restrictions for taking the GH-300 exam?
The exam is delivered online proctored by Microsoft, which typically offers global availability. However, candidates should verify availability in their region during registration, as some countries may have restrictions.
Information freshness · Content last reviewed on 2026-07-30 Up to date
Practice free questions 328 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.
6domains
14objectives
85concepts
70free 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
1Use GitHub Copilot responsibly41 questions
2Use GitHub Copilot features104 questions
3Understand GitHub Copilot data and architecture58 questions
4Apply prompt engineering and context crafting43 questions
5Improve developer productivity with GitHub Copilot53 questions
6Configure privacy, content exclusions, and safeguards29 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.
Understand responsible AI principles6 pagesOpen →
Free in front of it
28 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
328 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.
328questions
70pages
14objectives
Freealways
Browse by domain
Every objective, and every page range, is a link — so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
1Use GitHub Copilot responsibly41 questions
2Use GitHub Copilot features104 questions
3Understand GitHub Copilot data and architecture58 questions
4Apply prompt engineering and context crafting43 questions
5Improve developer productivity with GitHub Copilot53 questions
6Configure privacy, content exclusions, and safeguards29 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.
85concepts
328free 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.
3official links
85concepts 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, 85 concepts written under them, and free questions against every one. When GitHub changes the outline, this page changes with it.
14objectives on the outline→85concepts written→328free 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.