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GHAS Exam Traps: CodeQL Queries, SARIF Upload, and Push Protection Bypass

The trickiest GHAS certification exam questions involve code scanning vs secret scanning enablement, SARIF upload vs CodeQL action, alert auto-dismissal, push protection bypass vs allow secret, org security settings inheritance, Dependabot auto-merge, required workflows, and the security manager role.

The GitHub Advanced Security Certification exam is full of questions where two answers look almost identical but one has a subtle technical error. Security features that sound similar (code scanning vs secret scanning, push protection bypass vs allow-listed secrets, SARIF upload vs CodeQL action) behave differently in ways that matter at exam time and in production. This post maps …

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