GH-900: GitHub Foundations Ultimate Course 2026

About this course

Are you ready to become a GitHub expert and confidently prepare for the GH-900: GitHub Foundations certification exam? This ultimate course is designed to give you both theoretical mastery and practical, hands-on experience across every exam domain. Whether you’re a developer, IT professional, or aspiring DevOps engineer, this course equips you with the skills to thrive in modern software collaboration.We begin with the fundamentals of Git and GitHub, covering version control concepts, repositories, commits, and branches. You’ll learn the difference between Git and GitHub, and how GitHub Flow streamlines collaboration. Next, we dive into repository management, exploring key files like README, LICENSE, and SECURITY, while teaching best practices for organizing and maintaining repositories.Collaboration is at the heart of GitHub, so you’ll gain practical knowledge of issues, pull requests, discussions, notifications, and documentation tools like Wikis and GitHub Pages. You’ll then explore modern development practices with GitHub Actions, GitHub Copilot and Codespaces—learning how automation and AI can accelerate your workflow.The course also covers project management with GitHub Projects, security and access management with 2FA, passkeys, and branch protection, and open-source engagement through GitHub Sponsors, Marketplace, and InnerSource principles.To ensure exam success, you’ll practice with 75+ interactive exam-style questions, each explained in detail using the method of elimination by Cloud Guru Amit, backed by official Microsoft documentation. Every correct and incorrect answer is broken down with video explanations, helping you understand not just the “what,” but the “why.”By the end of this course, you’ll have the confidence to manage repositories

Course objectives

• prepare for the GH-900 certification exam
• develop practical skills in managing and collaborating on software projects
• learn to implement security and access management