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Manage GitHub Actions Questions

Practice questions for Manage GitHub Actions topic in GitHub Administration. 40 questions covering this domain.

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Q1
medium

A platform team wants one secret shared across many repositories, but only selected repositories should be allowed to use it. What should the administ...

Q2
medium

An enterprise wants to restrict which repositories and workflows can use specific self-hosted runners. What should the administrator use?

Q3
medium

How are macOS larger runners used?

Q4
medium

A workload needs static IP addresses, Azure private networking, autoscaling, and GitHub-managed infrastructure. Which runner option best fits?

Q5
easy

Which runner type is deployed and managed by your company so you can control the hardware, operating system, and installed tools?

Q6
easy

At which scopes can GitHub Actions secrets be stored?

Q7
hard

Code scanning default setup is failing on standard GitHub-hosted runners because scans take too long and sometimes hit memory or disk errors. The team...

Q8
hard

A finance manager assumes that included GitHub Actions minutes will cover larger runner jobs on a private repository. What is the correct guidance?

Q9
hard

A workflow must reach software and services that exist only on the company's internal network and needs custom hardware. Which runner choice is best?

Q10
medium

A deployment job should not receive production credentials until a human approves the deployment. Which feature supports that control?

Q11
medium

A platform team wants one Actions secret shared across many repositories, but only five selected repositories should be able to use it. Which configur...

Q12
hard

An organization was created on March 1, 2023. Unless administrators changed it, what is the default GITHUB_TOKEN permission model for its repositories...

Q13
medium

An enterprise wants to allow only approved actions and require immutable references for them. Which policy setting best supports that goal?

Q14
medium

A private repository accepts pull requests from forks and wants the safest default token behavior for those workflows. Which setting should the admini...

Q15
easy

A deployment job references production environment secrets and required reviewers are configured. When do those secrets become available to the job?

Q16
easy

What is the default state of the setting that allows GitHub Actions to create and approve pull requests?

Q17
medium

Repository-level creation of self-hosted runners is disabled by policy. What can repositories still use if access is granted elsewhere?

Q18
hard

A finance team deletes several large workflow artifacts in the middle of the billing cycle and expects the current cycle's bill to drop immediately. W...

Q19
medium

A public repository requires approval before workflows from new outside contributors can run. Which workflow event still runs from the base branch reg...

Q20
medium

An organization blocks most public actions through policy. Which reference is not affected by that public action allow or block policy?

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