GitHub-Advanced-Security Exam Dumps : GitHub Advanced Security GHAS Exam

Secrets committed and then deleted are still accessible in therepository’s Git history. To locate them, navigate to theCommitstab. GitHub's secret scanning can detect secrets in both current and historical commits, which is why remediation should also includerevoking the secret, not just removing it from the latest code.

In a workflow: GitHub Actions workflows are the most common place for CodeQL code scanning. The codeql-analysis.yml defines how the analysis runs and when it triggers.

In an external CI system: GitHub allows you to run CodeQL analysis outside of GitHub Actions. Once complete, the results can be uploaded using the upload-sarif action to make alerts visible in the repository.

You cannot run or trigger analysis from third-party repositories directly, and theFiles changed tabin pull requests only shows diff — not analysis results.

To detect and blockvulnerable dependencies before merge, developers should use theDependency Review GitHub Actionin their pull request workflows. It scans all proposed dependency changes and flags any packages with known vulnerabilities.

This is apreventative measureduring development, unlike Dependabot, which reactsafter the fact.