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Implement Code Scanning and CodeQL (GH-500)
Master CodeQL code scanning: configure workflows, integrate third-party scanners via SARIF, customize queries, and troubleshoot failures. Essential for GH-500 Domain 4 and production security.
Intermediate
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Implement Code Scanning and CodeQL (GH-500)
Master CodeQL code scanning: configure workflows, integrate third-party scanners via SARIF, customize queries, and troubleshoot failures. Essential for GH-500 Domain 4 and production security.
Intermediate
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What you'll learn
Code scanning is essential to securing modern software, and finding vulnerabilities before they reach production is a game-changer. In this course, Implement Code Scanning and CodeQL (GH-500), you'll gain practical skills that serve two goals: passing the GH-500 certification exam and implementing enterprise-grade code scanning.
First, you'll explore code scanning fundamentals and how CodeQL fits into the software development lifecycle. Next, you'll configure CodeQL workflows for production repositories, balancing security coverage with GitHub Actions minutes consumption. Then, you'll customize CodeQL queries to detect organization-specific vulnerability patterns.
The enhanced V5 modules cover critical exam topics: integrating third-party scanners via SARIF uploads, understanding CodeQL's analysis model for compiled vs. interpreted languages, and troubleshooting common workflow failures.
When you're finished with this course, you'll have both the conceptual knowledge for GH-500 Domain 4 (25% of exam weight) and the hands-on skills to dramatically improve your organization's code security posture.
Implement Code Scanning and CodeQL (GH-500)
Intermediate
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Tim Warner is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and Microsoft Certified Trainer (since 1997) with nearly three decades of experience as an IT professional and technical educator.
