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Standardize your team on GitHub Actions with a structured GitHub training path — team admin reporting included on every CBT Nuggets Teams seat.

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Course
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Core skills
$99
Exam fee (GitHub)
IT operations team at help desk workstations with ticket queues and network diagrams
Difficulty
Difficulty: 3 of 5 (Moderate)
Moderate
Exam fee (GitHub)
$99
Courses on path
1
Official source
GitHub’s official exam page
Exam code
  • GH-200

Exam datasheet

Format
Proctored exam that may include interactive components
Prerequisites
No official prerequisites
Recommended experience
Intermediate-level experience in GitHub Actions, including workflow creation, automation, and CI/CD pipeline management
Recertification
2 years
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Exams

Exams for this certification

Exam fees per engineer, paid to the exam vendor$99

Exam — Required

Every engineer on the GitHub Actions path takes GH-200.

  1. GH-200GitHub Actions
    Exam fee
    $99
    Exam length
    100 minutes
    Questions
    70-75
    Passing score
    700 or greater required to pass

    Exam blueprint: GH-200

Skills your team builds

CI/CD Workflow AutomationWorkflow Triggers and FiltersJobsStepsand Conditional LogicContextsExpressionsand VariablesMatrix Build StrategiesArtifacts and CachingService ContainersReusable WorkflowsJavaScript and Docker ActionsAction Versioning and Distribution

Training path

Your team's training path

One CBT Nuggets course covers the full GitHub Actions path. Your team can start today and have admin reporting visible from day one.

  1. Start here · primary course

    GitHub Actions (GH-200)

    This GitHub Actions (GH-200) certification training helps IT teams unify how DevOps workflows are designed, secured, and maintained. Built for DevOps engineers, developers, and platform engineers who contribute to CI/CD pipelines, this GitHub Actions training covers triggers, jobs, and conditional logic, as well as matrix strategies, caching, service containers, and custom actions written in JavaScript or Docker. Engineers learn to build reusable workflows, manage secrets and runner fleets, and automate releases and pull request gates, giving your org consistent, auditable pipelines across repositories After taking this course, your DevOps team will be able to automate consistently, with fewer manual release steps and tighter control over credentials and compute spend. At roughly 20 hours per learner, this course fits alongside active project work, and includes progress tracking and Team Reporting.

    Shaun Wassell
    146 videos20h
    Open course

Every certification course includes

  • Expert-led video training
  • Per-team completion reporting

GitHub career ladder

Where GitHub Actions sits in your team's GitHub progression

The cert your team is on now, plus the levels above and below. Use this to map an engineer's next-step credential or to plan headcount coverage across tiers.

  1. Associate level

    2 certs

    GitHub Actions

    GH-200

    You are here

    GitHub Administration

    GH-100

Customer outcome

Build GH-200 capability across the whole team, not one engineer

Assign the GitHub Actions course to the engineers who need it, and the team report shows who has started, who has finished — the view leadership uses to see GitHub skills coverage across the team and where the gaps are.

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Team capability

Make GH-200 a number on your team capability sheet, not a single engineer’s certificate.

Standardizing your team on GH-200 gives leadership a clear picture of GitHub skills coverage — who has completed the training, who is still on the path, and where the gaps are — so staffing and escalation plans rest on known capability instead of on one engineer.

Credential: GitHub Actions

Exam
  • GH-200

Frequently asked questions about GitHub Actions training

Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating GitHub Actions training for their team.

How does GitHub Actions fit into our internal compliance and governance program?

Team reporting in CBT Nuggets documents assigned training, completion and certification coverage for internal governance or external audit conversations. Pair the GitHub Actions path with your auditor's control crosswalk for the formal compliance mapping your framework requires.

Who on the team should hold GitHub Actions, and what can a certified team own?

IT leaders typically frame GitHub Actions in operational terms — which roles and systems a certified engineer can own, defensible role coverage, predictable onboarding, and audit-ready training documentation. The measures that matter are time to resolve, time to productivity for new GitHub hires, and certification coverage by role rather than seat time.

What does CBT Nuggets GitHub Actions training include for a team?

CBT Nuggets GitHub Actions courses are built by named expert trainers. Where a course includes hands-on virtual labs or a practice exam mapped to GitHub's published exam objectives, the course list on this page says so. Team admin reporting tracks assignment, completion and exam readiness per engineer — the view managers use to run a team training program.

How do I assign and track GitHub Actions training for my team?

From the admin console, managers assign the GitHub Actions courses directly to specific engineers or role groups and track completion and practice-exam scores per learner. Team-wide reporting rolls up to a single dashboard you can review or export for leadership reviews or compliance reporting.

How long does it take to certify a team on GitHub Actions?

It depends on the team's starting baseline and how much time each engineer can give the linked courses each week. Most teams plan the training as an assigned playlist with a target date, and the team report shows who has finished the courses and the practice exams before anyone books the exam.

What if GitHub updates the GitHub Actions exam objectives?

CBT Nuggets updates GitHub course content as exam objectives refresh, and this page shows the current exam's status and any retirement date the vendor has announced. When GitHub restructures or renames a track, the assigned training stays aligned with the same team training plan, and the training stays current without anyone losing their progress mid-stream.

Ready to GitHub Actions-certify your team?

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See how CBT Nuggets helps IT leaders plan and track GitHub Actions training across the team — reporting included.

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