Git Certified: GitHub Foundations Exam Prep 📚

[tuves]

This discussion and its comment have been edited and modified from its original format to enable evergreen learning

Build your foundational knowledge of GitHub topics, tools, and concepts with our GitHub Foundations Exam prep course. Pace yourself over five weeks or the timeline you choose, we’ll prepare you to pass the GitHub Foundations certification exam with ease.

This course will be broken up into five weeks, each with a specific topic, curated resources, additional exam questions from our Hubber experts, Q&A, and the potential for office hours with GitHub staff. You can expect to be exam-ready by the end!

How do I join the prep course?

Use the modules linked below to study are your own pace, each module contains:

• Links to resources
• A Q&A discussion
• Practice questions to test your skills

Why should I do this?

Getting GitHub certified is a resounding endorsement that validates your skills, credibility, trust, and knowledge of the technologies and developer tools that are used by more than 100 million developers worldwide.

What is the GitHub Foundations certification?

Highlight your understanding of the foundational topics and concepts of collaborating, contributing, and working on GitHub. This exam covers:

• Collaboration
• GitHub products
• Git basics
• Working within GitHub repositories

---

What’s the schedule?

Part One: Foundations of Foundations🧱

• Introduction to Git
• Introduction to GitHub
• Introduction to GitHub’s Products

Part Two: Copilot 🧑‍✈️

• Introduction to GitHub Copilot
• Using GitHub Copilot with Python

Part Three: Repositories 📦

• Manage repository changes by using PRs on GitHub
• Search and organize repository history by using GitHub
• Maintain a secure repository by using GitHub best practices

Part Four: GitHub Features and Open Source 🌐

• Code with GitHub Codespaces
• Manage your work with GitHub Projects
• Contribute to an open-source project on GitHub
• Communicate effectively on GitHub using Markdown

Part Five: Enterprise Essentials 💼

• Manage an Inner Source program by using GitHub
• Introduction to GitHub administration
• Authenticate and authorize user identities on GitHub

---

Then, once you complete the course and the exam, share your feedback so we can continue to make the certification process a great one! We’re looking forward to getting you exam-ready.

For more information on our certifications program, please visit the Certifications site.

[daizy12]

Hi @tuves where do we sign-up for this prep course? Also, is it open to external folks as well (outside GitHub)?

Thank you,

[queenofcorgis]

For those interested in signing up, look no further than this discussion. We'll be posting here each week a link to the module we're covering with everything you'll need to participate @daizy12 @Nk-The-Remaker @einsor. By commenting you'll be subscribed so you'll get the notification when we post each week's discussion 😃 .

[Salgado2004]

The Exam Preps are excellent initiatives to make GitHub Certifications accessible to everybody! And GitHub Foundations, specially, is a great certification to get to know more about GitHub and its features, and learn how you can make the best use of this awesome platform 😉

I strongly recommend following the exam prep and engaging in the discussions! You will be in good care of the amazing GitHub Community Maintainers 🚀

@garzuze, @KiyotaYuji, @reszkojr, @VictorVechi, vamos lá?

[KiyotaYuji]

Lets do this 👊🏼

[garzuze]

Let's gooooo

[garzuze]

Love to see that!
What do you think? @Humanaice

[ramanark1972]

Interested in signing up

[tuves]

Perfect! Since you've commented, you'll be notified whenever there's new activity on the discussion. No signups necessary; we'll be sharing the first module on Monday 2025-03-31 😄

[learner-enthusiast]

How do we signup?

[tuves]

Perfect! Since you've commented, you'll be notified whenever there's new activity on the discussion. No signups necessary; we'll be sharing the first module on Monday 2025-03-31 😄

[youssefallalix]

Hello,

I'm interested in taking the GitHub Foundations Certification exam and would love to attend the sessions.

I have one question, will there be any instructor-led sessions?

Thanks in advance!

[Salgado2004]

Hello, @youssefallalix !

The exam prep sessions are discussions here in the GitHub Community! 😊 So each week they'll post a new module with links and resources for us to study, make our own research, and them contribute in the comments

There're no directly live instructors sessions... but sometimes the resources may include links to live workshops like Microsoft Ignite. Also, if you have any questions during your research, you can always ask in the comments and there will be people to help you! 😉

Hope that clears your vision about the exam prep!
See you there 🚀

[youssefallalix]

Thanks for the clarification. I'm excited to begin this learning journey with you all! 🚀

[umatty]

@tuves this is awesome for so many reasons but is this only open to FTE's or can contractors take part?

[umatty]

Just saw you comment here...all good. my apologies for the ping.

[tuves]

No prob @umatty, the more the merrier!

[umatty]

@delgadito; should we get Israel and Ubok on this also? They may be interested.

[Nocteln]

Hello,
do we need to sign up with the student pack?

[queenofcorgis]

@Nocteln nope 😃 new modules will be posted here each week and in the discussion body!

[Nocteln]

ok thank you
and how can we pass the certification after the 5 weeks?

[queenofcorgis]

We've curated resources and designed exam questions based on our experience taking the exam so completing this course is a great way to study. After the course ends you'll be prepared to sign up and take the exam!

[imDarshanGK]

How to get involved?

[queenofcorgis]

By commenting on this discussion you're subscribed to notifications of when each week of the course goes live. Week One: Foundations of Foundations [GitHub Foundations Certification Prep Course] complete with prep materials and sample questions has begun - visit the Discussion to start your certification journey! See you there 😎

[queenofcorgis]

Week Two: Copilot Discussion is now live. we hope you're ready to take off on another week of learning!

[queenofcorgis]

Who ready to study repositories? Week Three's Discussion is ready for you to start studying and to enter yourself for a free certification voucher! Continue studying this course.

[queenofcorgis]

We've got two weeks left and some great material to cover. Join us in the Week Four GitHub Features and Open Source Discussion to get learning and get that chance for a free certification voucher!

[tuves]

Week Five: Enterprise Essentials is live, folks! It's our final week, so let's finish off strong!

[queenofcorgis]

That's a wrap, find out if you were a winner, how to take an exam, and what's next in our announcement discussion ❤️ Thanks everyone for a great course!