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Yes and it is a general pratice [to use them to reflect](https://docs.github.com/en/organizations/organizing-members-into-teams/about-teams#nested-teams) the current enterprise internal's organization.
Yes and it is a general practice [to use them to reflect](https://docs.github.com/en/organizations/organizing-members-into-teams/about-teams#nested-teams) the current enterprise internal's organization.

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### On GitHub Enterprise Server, which command lines allows to generate a logs package to communicate to the support ?
### On GitHub Enterprise Server, what command line allows you to generate a logs package to communicate to support ?

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## Manage user identities and GitHub authentication

### Can be GitHub synchronized with an identity provider ?
### Can GitHub be synchronized with an identity provider ?

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Yes, for instance, Azure Active Directory but other like ADFS, Okta, OneLogin, etc
Yes, for instance, Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) and others like ADFS, Okta, OneLogin, etc

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### Which authentication mechanism allow user to connect using their company's credentials ?
### Which authentication mechanism allows a user to connect to GitHub using their company's credentials ?

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### Which feature allow to synchronize exchange of user identity data between your Idp and GitHub ?
### Which feature allows you to synchronize user identity data between your Idp and GitHub ?

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### What is the limit number of user in one GitHub organization ?
### What is the maximum number of members allowed in one GitHub organization ?

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## Describe how GitHub is deployed, distributed, and licensed

### Can an enterprise contain several organizations ?
### Can an enterprise contain several organizations ?

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macOS. It cost 10 times (in terms of minute of compute) the price of a linux minute
macOS. It cost 10 times (in terms of minute of compute) the price of a Linux minute

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### What are the different types of support of Enterprise Support ?
### What are the different types of Enterprise Support ?

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### What kind of info can you find using Audit Log API ?
### What kind of info can you find using the Audit Log API ?

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### Does the support covers account, server, and security issues ?
### Does support cover account, server, and security issues ?

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### Does GitHub Enterprise Server contains GitHub Actions feature ?
### Does GitHub Enterprise Server contain the GitHub Actions feature ?

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Yes. It is disabled by default but it's here and it contains already some built-in actions created by GitHub. It does NOT require acces to Internet to work because you can sync/download the Actions locally.
Yes. It is disabled by default but it's here and it contains already some built-in actions created by GitHub. It does NOT require access to the Internet to work because you can sync/download the Actions locally.

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### Does GitHub Enterprise Server contains GitHub Packages feature?
### Does GitHub Enterprise Server contain the GitHub Packages feature?

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## Manage access and permissions based on membership

### What are the two roles available at team level ?
### What are the two roles available at the team level ?

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### What are the three roles available at organization level ?
### What are the three roles available at organization level ?

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### Which role access should you give to a contributor with full control on the repo except access to sensitive or destructive actions ?
### What role access should you give to a contributor with full control on the repo without access to sensitive or destructive actions ?

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### Once a sensitive data has been commited, can you erase the history to keep the data secret again ?
### Once a sensitive data has been committed, can you erase the history to keep the data secret again ?

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**No**. You can overwrite a commit but you must consider the data unsecure once it has been commited. If it's a secret/password, then you must renew it.
**No**. You can overwrite a commit but you must consider the data unsecure once it has been committed. If it's a secret/password, then you must renew it.

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### How can you automatically assign specific persons as reviewers when a part of the code is modified ?
### How can you automatically assign specific people as reviewers when a part of the code is modified ?

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### What is the simplest way to prevent the creation of public repository ?
### What is the simplest way to prevent the creation of public repository ?

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### Which feature of GitHub scan your repo and alerts you in case of detected vulnerabilities and automatically create a pull request to fix it ?
### Which feature of GitHub scans your repo and alerts you in case of detected vulnerabilities and automatically creates a pull request to fix it ?

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### What is the feature which help to prevent to commit a secret ?
### What is the feature which helps to prevent to commit a secret ?

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### You have a workflow secret named MY_SECRET. What if the format to call it from the workflow ?
### You have a workflow secret named MY_SECRET. What is the format to call it from the workflow ?

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## Manage GitHub Actions

### Which two files are mandatory when create a workflow template ?
### Which two files are mandatory when creating a workflow template ?

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- a workflow file with a yml extension (**my-workflow**.yml)
- a propertires files with ".properties.json" extention (**my-workflow**.properties.json)
- a properties files with ".properties.json" extension (**my-workflow**.properties.json)

Both files must have the same name.

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### Which placeholder keyword allow to inject the current default branch in a workflow template ?
### Which placeholder keyword allows you to inject the current default branch in a workflow template ?

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### Can you prevent users to use Actions from the marketplace ?
### Can you prevent members using Actions from the marketplace ?

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### Which feature allow to provide already premade templaces to users when they want to create a workflow ?
### Which feature allow to provide premade templates to users when they want to create a workflow ?

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### How do you enforce your workflow running on a specific self-hosted agent running on Linux with ARM ?
### How do you enforce your workflow running a specific self-hosted agent, running on Linux, with ARM ?

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### In which folder of a self-hosted agent can you find logs to debug the behavior of the runner ?
### In which folder of a self-hosted agent can you find logs to debug the behaviour of the runner ?

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### What is the docker command to publish a container image on GitHub Packages ?
### What is the docker command to publish a container image into GitHub Packages ?

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### What are the (programming) package managers supported by GitHub Packages ?
### What are the programming package managers supported by GitHub Packages ?

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