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Microsoft GH-500 Exam Overview:

Certification Vendor:	Microsoft
Exam Name:	Microsoft GitHub Advanced Security (GH-500)
Exam Number:	GH-500
Exam Price:	$165 USD (may vary by region)
Passing Score:	700 (on a scale of 1000)
Certificate Validity Period:	1 year (renewable via Microsoft certification renewal)
Related Certifications:	GitHub Actions GitHub Administration Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert
Available Languages:	English
Real Exam Qty:	40-60 (approx.)
Exam Duration:	120 minutes
Exam Format:	Scenario-based questions, Multiple response, Case studies, Multiple choice
Recommended Training:	Microsoft Learn - GitHub Advanced Security GitHub Advanced Security Documentation
Exam Registration:	Pearson VUE Microsoft Exams Microsoft Certification Exam Page
Sample Questions:	Microsoft GH-500 Sample Questions
Exam Way:	Online proctored exam or authorized testing center (Pearson VUE)
Pre Condition:	Recommended: familiarity with GitHub, DevSecOps practices, and CI/CD pipelines. No formal prerequisites required.
Official Syllabus URL:	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/credentials/certifications/exams/gh-500/

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Microsoft GH-500 Exam Syllabus Topics:

Topic	Details
Topic 1	Configure and use secret scanning: This domain targets DevOps Engineers and Security Analysts with the skills to configure and manage secret scanning. It includes understanding what secret scanning is and its push protection capability to prevent secret leaks. Candidates differentiate secret scanning availability in public versus private repositories, enable scanning in private repos, and learn how to respond appropriately to alerts. The domain covers alert generation criteria for secrets, user role-based alert visibility and notification, customizing default scanning behavior, assigning alert recipients beyond admins, excluding files from scans, and enabling custom secret scanning within repositories.
Topic 2	Configure and use Dependabot and Dependency Review: Focused on Software Engineers and Vulnerability Management Specialists, this section describes tools for managing vulnerabilities in dependencies. Candidates learn about the dependency graph and how it is generated, the concept and format of the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), definitions of dependency vulnerabilities, Dependabot alerts and security updates, and Dependency Review functionality. It covers how alerts are generated based on the dependency graph and GitHub Advisory Database, differences between Dependabot and Dependency Review, enabling and configuring these tools in private repositories and organizations, default alert settings, required permissions, creating Dependabot configuration files and rules to auto-dismiss alerts, setting up Dependency Review workflows including license checks and severity thresholds, configuring notifications, identifying vulnerabilities from alerts and pull requests, enabling security updates, and taking remediation actions including testing and merging pull requests.
Topic 3	Configure and use Code Scanning with CodeQL: This domain measures skills of Application Security Analysts and DevSecOps Engineers in code scanning using both CodeQL and third-party tools. It covers enabling code scanning, the role of code scanning in the development lifecycle, differences between enabling CodeQL versus third-party analysis, implementing CodeQL in GitHub Actions workflows versus other CI tools, uploading SARIF results, configuring workflow frequency and triggering events, editing workflow templates for active repositories, viewing CodeQL scan results, troubleshooting workflow failures and customizing configurations, analyzing data flows through code, interpreting code scanning alerts with linked documentation, deciding when to dismiss alerts, understanding CodeQL limitations related to compilation and language support, and defining SARIF categories.
Topic 4	Describe GitHub Advanced Security best practices, results, and how to take corrective measures: This section evaluates skills of Security Managers and Development Team Leads in effectively handling GHAS results and applying best practices. It includes using Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) and Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) identifiers to describe alerts and suggest remediation, decision-making processes for closing or dismissing alerts including documentation and data-based decisions, understanding default CodeQL query suites, how CodeQL analyzes compiled versus interpreted languages, the roles and responsibilities of development and security teams in workflows, adjusting severity thresholds for code scanning pull request status checks, prioritizing secret scanning remediation with filters, enforcing CodeQL and Dependency Review workflows via repository rulesets, and configuring code scanning, secret scanning, and dependency analysis to detect and remediate vulnerabilities earlier in the development lifecycle, such as during pull requests or by enabling push protection.
Topic 5	Describe the GHAS security features and functionality: This section of the exam measures skills of Security Engineers and Software Developers and covers understanding the role of GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) features within the overall security ecosystem. Candidates learn to differentiate security features available automatically for open source projects versus those unlocked when GHAS is paired with GitHub Enterprise Cloud (GHEC) or GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES). The domain includes knowledge of Security Overview dashboards, the distinctions between secret scanning and code scanning, and how secret scanning, code scanning, and Dependabot work together to secure the software development lifecycle. It also covers scenarios contrasting isolated security reviews with integrated security throughout the development lifecycle, how vulnerable dependencies are detected using manifests and vulnerability databases, appropriate responses to alerts, the risks of ignoring alerts, developer responsibilities for alerts, access management for viewing alerts, and the placement of Dependabot alerts in the development process.

Microsoft GitHub Advanced Security Sample Questions (Q104-Q109):

NEW QUESTION # 104
You are a maintainer of a repository and Dependabot notifies you of a vulnerability. Where could the vulnerability have been disclosed? (Each answer presents part of the solution. Choose two.)

A. In the National Vulnerability Database
B. In manifest and lock files
C. In security advisories reported on GitHub
D. In the dependency graph

Answer: A,C

Explanation:
Comprehensive and Detailed Explanation:
Dependabot alerts are generated based on data from various sources:
National Vulnerability Database (NVD): A comprehensive repository of known vulnerabilities, which GitHub integrates into its advisory database.
GitHub Docs
Security Advisories Reported on GitHub: GitHub allows maintainers and security researchers to report and discuss vulnerabilities, which are then included in the advisory database.
The dependency graph and manifest/lock files are tools used by GitHub to determine which dependencies are present in a repository but are not sources of vulnerability disclosures themselves.

NEW QUESTION # 105
You are viewing a code scanning alert. What detail is included in the alert?

A. The Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) submission date
B. The secret checked into the repository
C. The line of code that triggered the alert
D. The GitHub username of anyone who has Read access to the repository

Answer: C

Explanation:
A code scanning alert provides information that helps a developer identify and understand the security problem detected by the analysis tool. GitHub specifically displays the line of code that triggered the alert, together with properties such as severity, security severity, the nature of the problem, and when the issue was introduced. CodeQL-generated alerts may additionally contain remediation guidance and data-flow information. Secret values are handled through secret scanning rather than being shown as the defining detail of a code scanning alert. GitHub also does not list all users with repository Read access within an individual alert, and a CWE submission date is not the primary alert-location information. The source-code location is therefore the correct answer.

NEW QUESTION # 106
Which alerts do you see in the repository's Security tab? (Each answer presents part of the solution. Choose three.)

A. Dependabot alerts
B. Code scanning alerts
C. Secret scanning alerts
D. Repository permissions
E. Security status alerts

Answer: A,B,C

Explanation:
In a repository's Security tab, you can view:
Secret scanning alerts: Exposed credentials or tokens
Dependabot alerts: Vulnerable dependencies from the advisory database
Code scanning alerts: Vulnerabilities in code detected via static analysis (e.g., CodeQL) You won't see general "security status alerts" (not a formal category) or permission-related alerts here.

NEW QUESTION # 107
When using CodeQL, how does extraction for compiled languages work?

A. by resolving dependencies to give an accurate representation of the codebase
B. by running directly on the source code
C. by monitoring the normal build process
D. by generating one language at a time

Answer: C

Explanation:
For compiled languages, CodeQL performs extraction bymonitoring the normal build process.
This means it watches your usual build commands (like make, javac, or dotnet build) and extracts the relevant data from the actual build steps being executed. CodeQL uses this information to construct a semantic database of the application.
This approach ensures that CodeQL captures a precise, real-world representation of the code and its behavior as it is compiled, including platform-specific configurations or conditional logic used during build.

NEW QUESTION # 108
By default, which role can enable Dependabot alerts?

A. Security analysts
B. Repository maintainers
C. Outside collaborators
D. Repository administrators

Answer: D

Explanation:
GitHub identifies repository administrators as users who can enable Dependabot alerts for an individual repository. Organization owners can also enable the feature at organization scope, but they are not one of the options presented. Once enabled, Dependabot compares dependency information against vulnerability data from the GitHub Advisory Database and generates alerts when affected dependencies are found. Users with Maintain or Write access can view and work with alerts when permissions allow, but enabling or disabling repository security features requires repository administration privileges under the configuration model tested here. Outside collaborators do not automatically receive that level of administrative control, and "security analyst" is not a standard repository role granting feature-enablement authority. Therefore, repository administrator is the correct selection.

NEW QUESTION # 109
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