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GitHub Actions Certification

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Practice exam for the GitHub Certified: Actions certification. Covers workflows and triggers, jobs and runners, creating and using actions, CI/CD patterns, deployment, and security.

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Sample Questions — GitHub Actions Certification

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1. A DevOps engineer needs to configure a GitHub Actions workflow that triggers whenever code is pushed to the main branch. Which workflow trigger syntax is correct?

A on: push: branches: - main ✓ Correct

B on: trigger: push: branch: main

C on: branch: main event: push

D on: push: branch: main

2. A company wants to trigger a workflow only when pull requests targeting the `main` or `release/*` branches are opened or synchronized. Which trigger configuration achieves this?

A on: pull_request: branches: - main - release/*

B on: pull_request: types: [opened, synchronize] branches: - main - release/* ✓ Correct

C on: push: branches: - main - release/*

D on: workflow_dispatch: branches: - main - release/*

3. A developer needs to ensure that a deploy job only runs after both a build job and a test job have completed successfully. Which keyword should be used to configure this dependency?

A depends-on: [build, test]

B needs: [build, test] ✓ Correct

C requires: [build, test]

D after: [build, test]

4. A company wants a GitHub Actions workflow job to run on the latest Ubuntu GitHub-hosted runner. Which value should be used for the `runs-on` key?

A ubuntu-latest ✓ Correct

B ubuntu

C linux-latest

D github-ubuntu

5. A developer wants to check out the repository code at the start of a workflow job. Which action should they use?

A actions/checkout ✓ Correct

B actions/setup-node

C actions/upload-artifact

D actions/cache

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