GH-200: GitHub Actions Learning Path

Introduction

This learning path is designed for professional developers, DevOps engineers, and IT professionals who want to demonstrate their expertise in designing, building, operating, and troubleshooting automated workflows using GitHub Actions. The exam covers creating and maintaining workflows, consuming and managing workflows, authoring custom actions, and enterprise-scale management of Actions and runners.

Use this path to guide your study: understand the concepts, practice hands-on, reinforce with labs or real-world scenarios, and review each domain systematically.

Overview

The GH-200: GitHub Actions exam assesses four major domains:

Domain	Approx %	Focus
Domain 1: Author & maintain workflows	40%	Build, configure, and maintain GitHub Actions workflows, including triggers, jobs, steps, secrets, and publishing.
Domain 2: Consume workflows	20%	Interpret workflows, manage runs and artifacts, debug/diagnose failures, and locate workflow components.
Domain 3: Author & maintain actions	25%	Create reusable actions (JavaScript, Docker) and understand their structure, metadata, and integration.
Domain 4: Manage GitHub Actions in the enterprise	15%	Enterprise-scale governance: runners (self-hosted vs GitHub-hosted), access, secrets, templates, policies.