GH-100T00: GitHub Fundamentals - Administration Basics and Product Features

Course Overview

The GH-100T00: GitHub Fundamentals – Administration Basics and Product Features course is designed for IT professionals and administrators who want to manage, configure, and optimise GitHub environments for teams and organisations. This course provides a comprehensive understanding of GitHub’s administrative capabilities, repository management, collaboration tools, and product features to streamline enterprise software development and DevOps practices.

Participants will learn to configure organisational settings, manage users and teams, enforce security and compliance, and leverage GitHub’s advanced product features such as branch protection, GitHub Actions, and project boards. The course also covers best practices for workflow standardisation, access control, and maintaining governance across multiple repositories.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to administer GitHub at scale efficiently, implement organisational policies, enhance team collaboration, and drive secure and compliant development workflows. This course is ideal for IT administrators, DevOps engineers, and technical leads responsible for managing GitHub environments in enterprise settings.

Key Learning Outcomes:

By completing this course, participants will be able to:

Understand GitHub administration fundamentals and organisational structures
Manage users, teams, and repository permissions
Configure security policies, branch protections, and compliance standards
Utilise GitHub product features such as Actions, Issues, and Project Boards
Implement workflow standardisation and best practices for collaboration
Monitor repository activity and enforce organisational governance
Support DevOps processes and continuous integration workflows effectively

Prerequisites:

Familiarity with GitHub and basic repository workflows

Learners should have experience with:

Creating and navigating GitHub repositories
Using branches, commits, and pull requests
Understanding issues, discussions, and notifications
Basic DevOps concepts and CI/CD workflows

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Online Instructor-Led Training

Learn from the comfort of your workplace or at home through live virtual sessions led by expert trainers.

Classroom Training

Participate in interactive, face-to-face training in our top 5-star training facilities in Dubai

Onsite Training

Learn a customized curriculum in your workplace to ensure the most impact and team participation.

Overseas Training

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Target Audiance

This course is ideal for IT administrators, DevOps engineers, technical leads, and team managers responsible for managing GitHub environments in enterprise or organisational settings.

Schedule Dates

23 February 2026

GH-100T00: GitHub Fundamentals – Administration Basics and Product Features

25 May 2026

GH-100T00: GitHub Fundamentals – Administration Basics and Product Features

31 August 2026

GH-100T00: GitHub Fundamentals – Administration Basics and Product Features

07 December 2026

GH-100T00: GitHub Fundamentals – Administration Basics and Product Features

Course Content

What is GitHub?
Fundamental components: issues, notifications, branches, commits, pull requests
Guided lab: explore a GitHub repository

Managing users, organizations, and role-based access
Authentication and enterprise governance

Difference between individual, team, and enterprise plans
Tools: GitHub Desktop & Mobile, billing, license reports

Best practices for a secure supply chain
Automatic security scanning

Security policies, rulesets, reporting, and logging
Guided exercise

User authentication/authorization and team synchronization

Features: managed users, scaling enterprise settings, support structures

Workflow management, reusable components, self-hosted runners
Managing encrypted secrets

Introduction to packages and registries
Package publishing via GitHub Actions

FAQs

Basic familiarity with GitHub is helpful, but the course covers administration fundamentals from the ground up, making it accessible to professionals new to GitHub administration.

Yes. The course covers organisation-level management, allowing administrators to configure multiple repositories, enforce policies consistently, and apply standardised workflows at scale.

Yes. The course explores audit logs, repository activity monitoring, and reporting tools to track changes, ensure compliance, and maintain organisational oversight.

Yes. The course introduces GitHub Marketplace apps and integrations that enhance automation, security, testing, and project management capabilities within your organisation.

Yes. The course covers GitHub Project Boards, issues, milestones, and labels to manage work efficiently and improve collaboration between developers, managers, and stakeholders.

Yes. While the focus is on enterprise administration, the concepts of repository governance, collaboration, and workflow automation are applicable to public and open-source projects as well.

GH-100T00: GitHub Fundamentals - Administration Basics and Product Features

Course Overview

Key Learning Outcomes:

Prerequisites: