GitHub Foundations Certification Quiz 3

The GitHub Foundations Certification exam is targeted towards GitHub users who want to validate their understanding of the foundational topics, products, and concepts of collaborating, contributing, and working on GitHub. These are three practice tests for the certification exam to feel confident before you appear for the exam.

Total questions: 30
Time: 50 minutes
Passing score: 70%

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#1. What is the role of an organization security manager?

Security managers are organization members who can manage the billing settings for your organization, such as payment information.

Security managers are organization members who, in addition to their permissions as members, are allowed to block and unblock non-member contributors, set interaction limits, and hide comments in public repositories owned by the organization.

Security managers are organization members who have complete access to the organization.

Security managers are organization members who can view security alerts and manage settings for code security across your organization, as well as read permissions for all repositories in the organization.

#2. Which of these definitions best describes open-source software?

It's software with source code that anyone can inspect, modify, and enhance.

It's software with source code that anyone can rely on.

It's free to use for any personal purposes as long as you don't make profit out of it.

It's free to use for any purpose as long as you sign the open-source license.

#3. What is the GitHub Sponsors program?

It's a group of companies that fund GitHub

It's a program that helps people find a job in the tech industry

It's a program where highly skilled developers volunteer to help students learn how to use GitHub

It's a way to financially support the developers of the open-source projects

#4. On your personal GitHub dashboard, you received a notification that user `octocat` has created a new repository `octocat/my-repo`. Why did you receive that notification?

Because you starred the octocat/my-repo repository

Because you are following the user octocat

Because you recently visited octocat user profile

Because you contributed to the octocat/my-repo repository

#5. What are the effects of you following a user on GitHub?

You can engage in private conversations with them using GitHub Chat.

That user will get notifications on their personal dashboard about your public activity.

You will get access to their private repositories once the following request is accepted.

You will get notifications on your personal dashboard about their public activity.

#6. What is the GitHub Marketplace?

GitHub Marketplace is a place where you can sponsor open-source developers on a subscription basis.

GitHub Marketplace is a place where developers offer to sell ownership of their repositories.

GitHub Marketplace is a place where companies can find developers to hire.

GitHub Marketplace is a place where developers can find tools that help build software right alongside their code.

#7. What is InnerSource?

InnerSource refers to the practice of applying open-source principles in personal projects.

InnerSource refers to the practice of applying open-source principles within an organization.

InnerSource is a tool that allows organizations to see what open-source projects they are using in their code.

InnerSource refers to the internal knowledge base of an organization about the project they are working on.

#8. Which of these is a practice that encourages collaboration, visibility and sharing of code among different teams within an organization?

OpenSource

Git Flow

Continuous Integration

InnerSource

#9. What are the different repository visibility options?

Personal and Public

Private and Public

Personal, Public and Internal (Enterprise only)

Private, Public and Internal (Enterprise only)

#10. What is the purpose of a `CODEOWNERS` file?

The CODEOWNERS file contains information about the software licensing fees and conditions under which the code can be used.

The CODEOWNERS file contains contact details to the repository owners.

The CODEOWNERS file allows you to define individuals or teams that are responsible for specific areas of the codebase or its entirety.

The CODEOWNERS file includes information about the code quality and the maintainability of the code.

#11. How can you enforce status checks passing before merging a pull request to the `main` branch?

By making the repository private

By running tests locally prior to pushing to the remote repository

By creating a branch protection rule

By using GitHub Actions

#12. Which of these actions will make sure that prior to any push on the `main` branch, the changes have been approved by at least two people? (Choose three.)

Select all that apply:

On the branch protection rule, require at least 2 approvals before merging a pull request

On the branch protection rule, require a pull request before merging

Create a branch protection rule for main branch

Setup a CODEOWNERS file in the repository

Create a deployment protection rule for main branch

Enforce status checks are passing before merging a pull request to the main branch

On the deployment protection rule, require at least 2 approvals before merging a pull request

#13. What can you find in the security tab of a repository?

A security overview of that repository such as vulnerabilities in dependencies, code scanning results, and secret scanning alerts

Contact information to the security team at GitHub

A list of all the GitHub Issues that have been opened in the repository for security reasons

A list of all best practices that GitHub recommends for securing your software

#14. What is CodeQL?

A code analysis tool

A text editor

A programming language

A version control system

#15. Which tool helps you keep the repository dependencies up to date?

Dependabot

GitHub Actions

CodeQL

GitHub Copilot

#16. What are Repository Insights?

It's a list of best practices to follow when administrating a repository.

Repository Insights is a feature that allows you to see the repository's secret and code scanning alerts.

It's a feature that allows you to see the repository's security overview.

It's a place where you can see data about the repository such as code frequency, list of the most active contributors and more.

#17. Who are repository collaborators?

Collaborators are people who have made code contributions to a repository.

Collaborators are people who have raised issues or pull requests on a repository.

Collaborators are people who have funded a repository.

Collaborators are people who have been granted write access to a repository.

#18. How can you work together with a friend of yours on a repository that you have created on your personal GitHub account?

Go to repository settings and invite him as a collaborator.

It's not possible to work together on personal repositories. You can only do that for repositories owned by organizations.

Add him to CODEOWNERS file.

Provide your friend your GitHub credentials.

#19. Which of these statements regarding GitHub Codespaces lifecycle are true? (Choose three.)

Select all that apply:

A Codespace's lifecycle begins when you create a Codespace and ends when you delete it.

If you close the browser tab in which your Codespace was running, the Codespace will automatically be stopped.

You can stop and restart a Codespace without affecting its running processes.

If you create another Codespace on a branch which already had a Codespace running on it, the original Codespace will be deleted.

You can stop and restart a Codespace without losing the changes that you make to your project.

You can disconnect and reconnect to an active Codespace without affecting its running processes.

#20. Your project requires appropriate hardware to run. Can you customize the amount of CPU cores that will be allocated to your GitHub Codespace environment?

Yes, you can choose an alternative machine type either when you create a codespace or at any time after you've created a codespace.

No, GitHub Codespaces are hosted on Microsoft Azure and we have no control on what hardware they are running.

#21. How can you customize the environment that is run in GitHub Codespaces?

By creating a .devcontainer/devcontainer.json configuration file

By creating a .github/codespaces.yml configuration file

By creating a custom Dockerfile in the root of your repository

By creating custom machine images with the repository installed

#22. What is a GitHub Codespace deep link?

It's a link between the GitHub Codespace and the repository which keeps the Codespace in sync with the changes in the repository.

It's a link that points to a specific GitHub.com Page that allows you to create a new GitHub Codespace and select specific configuration.

It's a link to the most recent GitHub Codespace that was created for the repository.

It's a link to the most recent GitHub Codespace that you have used in any repository.

#23. Who should have 2 Factor Authentication enabled on GitHub?

GitHub Enterprise Server users

It's not recommended to use 2FA on GitHub for anyone

GitHub Organization owners

All GitHub users

#24. What are Enterprise Managed Users?

It's a shared user account that can be used by multiple users in your Enterprise

It's an user account without access to GitHub web UI but is rather only used for automation tasks in your GitHub Enterprise

It's a GitHub Enterprise support user that can be used to manage your Enterprise by GitHub Support once requested

It's a GitHub Enterprise feature that allows you to manage user access from an external identity provider such as Azure AD or Okta

#25. What are the different permission levels for a repository owned by a personal account? (Choose two.)

Select all that apply:

security manager

project owner

billing manager

collaborator

repository owner

#26. Which of these is NOT a role in a GitHub Organization?

Organization moderator

Organization owner

Organization architect

Billing manager

Organization member

GitHub App manager

Security manager

Outside collaborator

#27. Can you disable the issues tab on a repository?

Yes

#28. Where can you disable repository features such as issues, wikis or projects on a repository that you own?

In the .github/settings.yml configuration file

These features cannot be disabled

In your account settings

In the repository settings

#29. Where can you find publicly available GitHub Actions?

GitHub private repositories

GitHub Marketplace

GitHub Public Action Storage

GitHub Actions Project Boards

#30. Which of these tools serves as an AI pair programmer that offers autocomplete-style suggestions as you code?

GitHub Copilot

GitHub Partner

GitHub AI Aid

GitHub Assistant

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