GH-900T00-A: GitHub Foundations
Course Overview
The GH-900T00-A: GitHub Foundations course is designed to provide professionals with a comprehensive understanding of GitHub as a platform for modern software development, collaboration, and version control. The course focuses on leveraging GitHub to streamline workflows, manage codebases, and implement best practices in source control, collaboration, and project management.
Participants will gain hands-on experience with Git workflows, branching strategies, pull requests, and issue tracking, while exploring GitHub’s advanced features for continuous integration, security, and team collaboration. The course equips learners with the skills to improve development productivity, enforce code quality standards, and manage collaborative projects effectively in enterprise and open-source environments.
By the end of this course, participants will confidently manage code repositories, collaborate across teams, and implement GitHub best practices to support agile development, DevOps processes, and continuous delivery pipelines.
By completing this course, participants will be able to:
- Understand GitHub fundamentals and repository management
- Apply Git workflows for version control and collaboration
- Use branching, merging, and pull requests effectively
- Track and manage issues, projects, and tasks within GitHub
- Implement best practices for code reviews and collaboration
- Explore GitHub Actions for automation and CI/CD
- Manage repository security and permissions
Schedule Dates
Course Content
- Introduction to Git
- Introduction to GitHub
- Introduction to GitHub's products
- Configure code scanning on GitHub
- Introduction to GitHub Copilot
- Code with GitHub Codespaces
- Manage your work with GitHub Projects
- Communicate effectively on GitHub using Markdown
- Contribute to an open-source project on GitHub
- Manage an InnerSource program by using GitHub
- Maintain a secure repository by using GitHub best practices
- Introduction to GitHub administration
- Authenticate and authorize user identities on GitHub
- Manage repository changes by using pull requests on GitHub
- Search and organize repository history by using GitHub
- Using GitHub Copilot with Python
FAQs
This course is ideal for developers, DevOps engineers, IT professionals, and team leads who want to master GitHub for professional software development and collaboration.
Yes. Participants engage in practical labs and real-world scenarios to manage repositories, collaborate with teams, and implement GitHub workflows.
Yes. Learners will understand repository security, branch protection rules, and permission management to maintain safe and compliant development environments.
Yes. The principles and practices taught apply to both enterprise and open-source projects, enabling developers to contribute efficiently and manage public repositories effectively.
Yes. Participants will receive a course completion certificate, validating their skills in GitHub version control, collaboration, and workflow management.
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