GitHub Foundations: collaboration and controlled delivery

Objectives and progression

Initial course with seven lessons and 40 original decisions, including five fictional APS and technical-management cases. Internal assessment of 26 decisions in 55 minutes. Covers seven domains at introductory depth; advanced administration, policy configuration, metrics, agents, and executable labs need deeper study. GH-900: January 2026 objectives in the guide updated 2026-02-19. The official page states 100 minutes and passing at 700 on a 1000-point scale, without equivalence to 70%. Question count unconfirmed. GitHub Foundations does not require renewal.

Audience: Technical managers, APS, developers, and contributors using GitHub to propose, review, and track work.

Prerequisites: Basic file handling, editing, and team collaboration. Initial Git experience helps, but no prior certification is assumed.

320 estimated study minutes

• Distinguish editing, committing, publishing, and merging before reporting delivery.
• Choose structure and controls supporting ownership and contributions.
• Connect issues and PRs and choose communication channels with the right audience.
• Choose tools by execution mechanism and validate their output.
• Build views representing the actual management-decision scope.
• Apply least privilege and confirm control scope.
• Collaborate with maintainers and reuse work while respecting access and commitments.

Modules

1. Git, local state, and collaboration
2. Repositories, guidance files, and maintenance
3. Conversations, traceability, and sharing
4. Automation, development environments, and AI
5. Projects, releases, and progress evidence
6. Identity, access, and merge rules
7. Community, contributions, and InnerSource

Continue learning

DevOps

• Git
• GitHub Actions
• GitHub Advanced Security
• Technical Project Manager

References and version

GH-900 skills measured January2026;study guide updated2026-02-19

• GitHub Foundations certification · 2026-09-30
• GH-900 study guide · 2026-09-30
• Exam scoring · 2026-09-30
• Git and GitHub · 2026-09-30
• GitHub flow · 2026-09-30
• Account types · 2026-09-30
• GitHub Mobile · 2026-09-30
• Repository templates versus forks · 2026-09-30
• CODEOWNERS and required review · 2026-09-30
• Repository README · 2026-09-30
• Security reporting policy · 2026-09-30
• Repository licensing · 2026-09-30
• Archiving repositories · 2026-09-30
• PR issue linkage and default branch · 2026-09-30
• Discussions · 2026-09-30
• Gists and secret visibility · 2026-09-30
• GitHub Pages static hosting · 2026-09-30
• Actions workflows jobs and runners · 2026-09-30
• VS Code for the Web versus Codespaces · 2026-09-30
• Responsible use of Copilot suggestions · 2026-09-30
• Copilot enterprise and organization policy · 2026-09-30
• Copilot individual and organization plans · 2026-09-30
• Projects views and integration · 2026-09-30
• Project filters · 2026-09-30
• Milestones · 2026-09-30
• Repository roles · 2026-09-30
• 2FA recovery methods · 2026-09-30
• Branch protection and bypass · 2026-09-30
• Contributing through forks and PRs · 2026-09-30
• Marketplace App installation permissions · 2026-09-30
• GitHub Sponsors · 2026-09-30
• Codespace trust and credentials · 2026-09-30
• Notification configuration · 2026-09-30
• Markdown task lists · 2026-09-30
• Credential revocation and exposed data · 2026-09-30
• Enterprise Managed Users · 2026-09-30
• Internal repository visibility · 2026-09-30
• GitHub Pages access control · 2026-09-30
• Git add · 2026-09-30
• Git fetch · 2026-09-30
• Git revert · 2026-09-30