Let's ignore for a bit the age-old question "are Certifications worth it or are they useless" and summarize the GitHub Certification program.

The GitHub Certification program was just recently (October 2023) announced by GitHub and will be officially launching on GitHub Universe 2023

At first there will be 4 available certifications, each has a registration fee of 200USD:

1. GitHub Foundations

2. GitHub Admin

3. GitHub Actions

4. GitHub Advanced Security

The exam is a test with single and multiple choice questions. They last 2hours and consist of ~70-75 questions, of which 60 are scored.

To sign-up visit https://resources.github.com/learn/certifications/ and join the waitlist. The program will open to the public in early 2024. Certain individuals (e.g Microsoft Partners) can take this exam already.

To study GitHub created it's own courses tailored for each of the exams.

• GitHub Foundations

• GitHub Actions

• GitHub Advanced Security

• GitHub Administration

In my opinion (after passing the GitHub Actions exam) the course covers too little ground. Practice is definitely the biggest factor. There are very few courses right now as the exams are in very early stage. If You are reading this in 2024 this may be a different case.
As part of my preparation I read a lot of the GitHub's documentation and crafted a large set of mock questions which turned out to be very similar to the actual similar experiance and got me 94% score. I've put them all on https://github.com/FidelusAleksander/githubcertified so anyone can take a look and better yet - contribute Your questions when studying!

Get certified! (or not, 200USD lol)