GitHub Actions Certificate Exam (GitHub-Actions) Free Practice Test

Question 1

What is the smallest scope for an environment variable?

A. a step

B. a job

C. the workflow settings

D. the workflow env mapping

Correct Answer: A

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Question 2

As a developer, what options should you recommend to implement standards for automation reuse? (Choose two.)

A. Create a marketplace partition to publish reusable automation for the company.

B. Create reusable actions and workflows that can be called from other workflows.

C. Create workflow templates and store them in the organization's .github repository.

D. Store shared corporate actions in subfolders in a defined and documented internally accessible repository.

Correct Answer: B,C

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Question 3

As a developer, you are using a Docker container action in your workflow. What is required for the action to run successfully?

A. The action must be published to the GitHub Marketplace.

B. The job env must be set to a Linux environment.

C. The job runs-on must specify a Linux machine with Docker installed.

D. The referenced action must be hosted on Docker Hub.

Correct Answer: C

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Question 4

As a developer, you are designing a workflow and need to communicate with the runner machine to set environment variables, output values used by other actions, add debug messages to the output logs, and other tasks. Which of the following options should you use?

A. environment variables

B. enable debug logging
E composite run step

C. self-hosted runners

D. workflow commands

Correct Answer: D

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Question 5

As a developer, what is the safest way to reference an action to prevent modification of the underlying code?

A. Use a patch release tag.

B. Use a commit hash.

C. Use a major release tag.

D. Use a branch name.

Correct Answer: B

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Question 6

Disabling a workflow allows you to stop a workflow from being triggered without having to delete the file from the repo. In which scenarios would temporarily disabling a workflow be most useful? (Choose two.)

A. A workflow sends requests to a service that is down.

B. A runner needs to have diagnostic logging enabled.

C. A workflow needs to be changed from running on a schedule to a manual trigger

D. A workflow is configured to run on self-hosted runners

E. A workflow error produces too many, or wrong, requests, impacting external services negatively.

Correct Answer: A,E

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Question 7

Which workflow commands send information from the runner? (Choose two.)

A. setting output parameters

B. populating variables in a Dockerfile

C. setting a debug message

D. reading from environment variables

Correct Answer: A,C

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Question 8

You installed specific software on a Linux self-hosted runner. You have users with workflows that need to be able to select the runner based on the identified custom software. Which steps should you perform to prepare the runner and your users to run these workflows? (Choose two.)

A. Configure the webhook and network to enable GitHub to trigger workflow.

B. Create the group custom-software-on-linux and move the runner into the group.

C. Add the label custom-software to the runner.

D. Add the label linux to the runner.

E. Inform users to identify the runner based on the group.

Correct Answer: C,E

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