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GitHub Certified: GitHub Actions (GH-200) practice exam and study path

A free, timed 60-question GH-200 practice exam in 100 minutes, scored by domain, with every option explained after you submit. Also 116 practice questions you can check one at a time, a page for every task in the exam guide, and a study path. No sign-up.

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GitHub Actions exam pack:

$6.99for 12 months

For DevOps engineers, developers and administrators who automate delivery with GitHub Actions: triggers and workflow structure, runs, logs and artifacts, custom actions and their release, runners, policies, secrets and variables at enterprise scale, and secure, cost-aware automation.

The exam

Exam code
GH-200
Questions
Not yet published
Time
100 minutes
Passing score
700 of 1,000 (scaled)
Exam fee
$99 (USD)
Question types
multiple choice, multiple response

Exam GH-200 is a proctored exam of 100 minutes, offered in English, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Korean and Japanese; it may include interactive components, and 700 passes. Microsoft doesn't publish the number of questions (most of its exams have 40 to 60). The fee is set by the country or region (USD 99 in the United States). GitHub certifications are valid for two years. Our forms use 60 questions split 14 / 11 / 11 / 15 / 9, close to the scaled midpoints of the guide's ranges.

From GitHub's certification page and exam guide, checked Oct 31, 2026.

Domains and weights

  • Domain 1: Author and manage workflows

    24%

  • Domain 2: Consume and troubleshoot workflows

    19%

  • Domain 3: Author and maintain actions

    19%

  • Domain 4: Manage GitHub Actions for the enterprise

    24%

  • Domain 5: Secure and optimize automation

    14%

On our roadmap this comes after GitHub Foundations. See every certification.

Practice

116 original practice questions, every option explained with the GitHub documentation page that proves it. Free, no sign-up; progress stays on this device.

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More practice exams

The lessons, the sample questions on every task page and the first full practice exam are free and stay free. A pack adds the further timed GH-200 practice exams.

GitHub Actions exam pack

$6.99for 12 months

  • Every paid GH-200 practice exam, timed, with every option explained
  • The next version of this exam included when it changes within your 12 months
  • 12 months of access. One payment, nothing renews by itself.
  • 14-day refund, no conditions
  • 14-day refund, no conditions: ask within 14 days of buying and you get the whole payment back.
  • No pass guarantee. These are practice exams written by us from the exam guide and the GitHub documentation; a score here does not predict your result on the real exam.

Study path

One module per exam domain. Lessons that already exist on BytePatterns are linked; the rest are being written.

  1. Module 1: Author and manage workflows

    1. 1Events and filters: schedules, manual runs, webhooks and repository eventsTask 1.1

      Lesson coming

    2. 2workflow_dispatch and workflow_call inputs, secrets, permissions and concurrencyTask 1.1

      Lesson coming

    3. 3Jobs, steps, conditions and dependencies, and workflow commandsTask 1.2

      Lesson coming

    4. 4Service containers for databases and queuesTask 1.2

      Partly covered by: Docker Compose for Local Dev, Ports, Networks & Volumes

    5. 5Matrices, YAML anchors, contexts and expressionsTask 1.2

      Lesson coming

    6. 6Caching, artifacts, outputs, job summaries and environmentsTask 1.3

      Lesson coming

  2. Module 2: Consume and troubleshoot workflows

    1. 7Reading runs: triggers, skipped jobs, matrix variants and re-runsTask 2.1

      Lesson coming

    2. 8Logs, debug logging and artifacts in the UI, GitHub CLI and the REST APITask 2.2

      Lesson coming

    3. 9Workflow templates, reusable workflows and composite actions, and disabling workflowsTask 2.3

      Lesson coming

  3. Module 3: Author and maintain actions

    1. 10JavaScript, composite and Docker container actionsTask 3.1

      Lesson coming

    2. 11Containers and images behind Docker container actionsTask 3.1

      Partly covered by: Containers vs VMs, Images, Layers & Multi-Stage Builds

    3. 12The action metadata file and workflow commands inside actionsTask 3.2

      Lesson coming

    4. 13Marketplace publishing, release tags and immutable releasesTask 3.3

      Lesson coming

  4. Module 4: Manage GitHub Actions for the enterprise

    1. 14Sharing and governing actions and workflows across an enterpriseTask 4.1

      Lesson coming

    2. 15GitHub-hosted, larger and self-hosted runners, runner groups and networkingTask 4.2

      Lesson coming

    3. 16Actions Runner Controller and runner scale sets on KubernetesTask 4.2

      Partly covered by: Pods, ReplicaSets & Deployments

    4. 17Keeping configuration and credentials out of codeTask 4.3

      Partly covered by: ConfigMaps, Secrets & Env

    5. 18Secrets and variables at organization, repository and environment level, and their APITask 4.3

      Lesson coming

  5. Module 5: Secure and optimize automation

    1. 19Script injection, least-privilege tokens, pinning and attestationsTask 5.1

      Lesson coming

    2. 20OIDC federation to cloud providers instead of stored cloud keysTask 5.1

      Partly covered by: Shared Responsibility & IAM

    3. 21Runner rates, storage, retention and faster, cheaper workflowsTask 5.2

      Lesson coming

Every task in the exam guide

The exam guide splits each domain into task statements. Each one has a page with a short summary, the lessons that teach it and open sample questions.

Domain 1: Author and manage workflows

Domain 2: Consume and troubleshoot workflows

Domain 3: Author and maintain actions

Domain 4: Manage GitHub Actions for the enterprise

Domain 5: Secure and optimize automation

How these questions are made

  • Written by us from the exam guide's task statements and the GitHub documentation — never from real exam content.
  • Every option carries its own explanation and a link to the GitHub page that proves it.
  • A question enters a timed exam only after an independent check; until then it is a practice question.
  • Results are a plain percentage, per domain too — not an imitation of GitHub's scaled score.

Questions about the GH-200 practice exam

Is the GH-200 practice exam free?
Yes. The full practice exam (60 questions, 100 minutes) is free with no sign-up, and so are the 116 practice questions, the task pages and the study path. Your attempts are saved in this browser, on this device.
How many questions does it have, and is it timed?
60 questions in 100 minutes: the real GH-200 pace, scaled to this form. When the time runs out, the exam is submitted as it stands.
Are the answers explained?
After you submit, not during: like the real exam, the timed exam gives no feedback until the end. Then you get your score overall and per exam domain, and every question with each option explained and a link to the GitHub documentation page behind it. In practice mode an answer is explained as soon as you check it.
What does the GitHub Actions exam pack add?
3 more timed practice exams (Practice exam 1: 60 questions, 100 minutes; Practice exam 2: 60 questions, 100 minutes; Practice exam 3: 60 questions, 100 minutes), each scored and explained the same way, and the next version of this exam if it changes within your 12 months. 12 months of access. One payment, nothing renews by itself. Everything above stays free. See the pack.
Can I get a refund?
Yes, with no conditions: ask within 14 days of buying and you get the whole payment back. The details are in the terms.
Is this an official GitHub practice exam?
No. BytePatterns is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by GitHub. Every question is written by us from the public exam guide and the GitHub documentation, never from real exam content, and a score here does not predict your result on the real exam. GitHub lists its own preparation resources on its certification page.