GitHub Copilot
GH-300
GitHub Copilot certification (exam GH-300). Validates expertise in using GitHub Copilot to improve developer productivity, quality and security — responsible AI use, prompt engineering, Copilot features across plans, data handling, and privacy safeguards including content exclusions. Proctored through Pearson VUE, 100 minutes, passing score 700.
40–60
The vendor does not publish an exact count
100 min
700/ 1000
211+
Target Audience
Developers, team leads and platform engineers who already use GitHub Copilot day to day and need to prove it — plus the administrators who roll it out, since a quarter of the exam is organization policy, content exclusions and seat management.
Prerequisites
No formal prerequisite. Microsoft's audience profile assumes familiarity with GitHub fundamentals and hands-on experience with at least one programming language, plus practical use of Copilot across the IDE, chat, CLI and agent mode.
Question Types
Language & Recognition
Official Exam Languages
PasslyExam Languages
Recognition Scope
Issued by GitHub and administered on Microsoft Learn. The exam is proctored through Pearson VUE, runs 100 minutes, and requires a scaled score of 700 to pass. Recognized worldwide wherever GitHub is used.
Exam Domains
Use GitHub Copilot responsibly
Use GitHub Copilot features
Understand GitHub Copilot data and architecture
Apply prompt engineering and context crafting
Improve developer productivity with GitHub Copilot
Configure privacy, content exclusions, and safeguards
Recommended Study Plan
- Week 1: fix the six skill areas and their weights. Copilot features is the largest at 25-30%, responsible AI use is 15-20%, and the remaining four are 10-15% each. The official "Skills at a glance" list looks like seven entries because one is printed twice — there are six.
- Week 2: learn the boundaries. This exam asks how far something reaches more than whether you know it exists. Sort everything into three buckets: plan boundaries (content exclusion, organization policy and organization custom instructions are Business/Enterprise only, while blocking public-code matches is available to individual plans), surface boundaries (the public-code policy is unsupported on the CLI, the Copilot app and code review; content exclusion is inline-only on Xcode and Eclipse), and guarantee boundaries (content exclusion is not a security boundary and does not cover symlinks or remote filesystems). Most items are one of these three.
- Week 3: add the administrator lens. A quarter of the paper is organization policy, audit logs and seat management through the REST API — studying only as a developer leaves that quarter blank. Know that adding a seat fails with 422 when no suggestion-matching policy is configured, that only organization owners manage billing, and that GET and POST/DELETE need different scopes. Also drill the behaviours people assume wrong: agent mode asks for command approval by default, and a sub-agent runs in its own context, cannot spawn further sub-agents, and is unavailable in Visual Studio.
- Final 5-7 days: run timed mocks to calibrate for 100 minutes. Passing is a scaled 700 of 1000, and the question count is not published — so skip what you do not know instead of budgeting per question. Sort every miss by which boundary you missed; revision gets much faster.
Question Validation Process
Try the practice set directly and judge real-exam similarity yourself.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q. Is GH-300 a real proctored exam?
A. Yes. It is proctored through Pearson VUE, runs 100 minutes, and needs a scaled 700 of 1000 to pass. It is issued on Microsoft Learn but the product is GitHub's. Note that Microsoft Learn open-book access is not available on GitHub exams.
Q. Did the syllabus change recently?
A. It was updated as of 7 August 2026. The official change log calls the revision minor, but the skill text now names Agent Mode, Sub-Agents, MCP, the Copilot CLI and instructions files. A lot of third-party material predates that revision, so treat older study guides as incomplete rather than merely renamed.
Q. I am a developer — do I really need the administration material?
A. Yes. About a quarter of the exam is organization policy management, audit logs and seat management through the REST API. Who can configure content exclusions, and over what scope, comes up repeatedly. Daily Copilot use does not cover this quarter.
Q. Can I just study past papers?
A. GitHub and Microsoft do not release past papers. The questions here are original, written against the official skills measured (7 August 2026) and GitHub's own documentation. They are not leaked exam content.
Q. What mock score is considered stable?
A. Holding above 80% across your latest three mocks. More useful than the score is sorting each miss by which boundary it was — plan, surface or guarantee. Repeated misses cluster in one of those three.
Q. How do practice questions and the timed mock exam differ?
A. Practice questions are solved by topic with answer explanations to shore up weak areas; the timed mock exam is taken like the real thing. Both use original questions with AI tutor explanations.
Q. Is this similar to exam dumps?
A. PasslyExam does not provide leaked dumps. Our content is built from official guides and public exam objectives, then tuned to reflect realistic question patterns and difficulty distribution. The focus is practical readiness with explanation-based learning, not memorization of leaked items.