[NEW] GitHub Advanced Security - Exam Preparation 2026

Prepare for the GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) certification with six structured practice exams designed to help you review essential GitHub security features, strengthen your technical understanding, and assess your readiness for certification.

This course focuses on securing code, protecting sensitive information, managing vulnerable dependencies, and integrating automated security checks into the software development lifecycle. Whether you are a software developer, DevSecOps engineer, application security professional, GitHub administrator, or certification candidate, these practice exams help you reinforce your knowledge of GitHub Advanced Security concepts and workflows.

What You Will Learn

• GitHub Advanced Security fundamentals: Understand Code Security, Secret Protection, Supply Chain Security, and the GitHub Security Overview dashboard.

• Secret scanning: Learn how secret scanning identifies exposed credentials, how to manage alerts, and how to handle false positives and policy exceptions.

• Dependabot and dependency management: Review automated dependency updates, vulnerability alerts, Dependency Review, version constraints, and update configurations.

• Software Bill of Materials (SBOM): Understand how SBOMs represent software components and support software supply chain security.

• Code scanning with CodeQL: Explore CodeQL analysis, GitHub Actions integration, security alerts, vulnerability triage, and remediation workflows.

• Security governance and best practices: Learn to prioritize security findings, establish policies, monitor security posture, and apply prevention-first strategies.

Why Choose These GHAS Practice Exams?

This course includes 6 practice exams with detailed explanations to help you evaluate your understanding of the major GitHub Advanced Security exam domains.

Each practice exam provides an opportunity to test your knowledge, identify areas that need further study, and revisit important security concepts. Detailed explanations help you understand why an answer is correct and clarify the reasoning behind key technical concepts.

The practice exams cover the following areas:

• GHAS security features and functionality

• Secret scanning configuration and alert management

• Dependabot, Dependency Review, and dependency security

• Code scanning and CodeQL

• Security best practices, governance, and corrective measures

The content follows the supplied exam-domain distribution, with particular emphasis on dependency management and CodeQL-based code scanning.

Who Should Enroll?

This course is suitable for GitHub Advanced Security certification candidates, software developers, DevSecOps engineers, application security professionals, security engineers, GitHub administrators, and learners interested in secure software development.

Basic familiarity with Git and GitHub is helpful. Previous GHAS certification or professional experience with GitHub Advanced Security is not required, although some knowledge of software development and security concepts can make preparation easier.

Start Your GHAS Exam Preparation

Use these six practice exams to review key concepts, test your knowledge, and identify topics that deserve additional attention before your certification exam.

Enroll today to strengthen your understanding of GitHub Advanced Security, secure development workflows, dependency protection, secret scanning, and CodeQL code scanning.

Note: This course provides practice questions for study and self-assessment. It does not guarantee certification success or represent an official GitHub certification examination.