By Amotion AIGH-700 · GitHub Certified: Agentic AI Business Professional · Beta
GH-700 exam guide: what it covers, who it is for and how to prepare
GH-700 is the exam for the GitHub Certified: Agentic AI Business Professional certification. It tests how product managers, program managers and business analysts use GitHub, GitHub Copilot and agentic workflows to get work done, and how they review and control what AI agents do. An agentic workflow is a set of written instructions that an AI agent follows on its own, on a schedule or when something happens in GitHub, such as a new issue. GitHub maintains the exam and Microsoft provides it. It is in beta as of October 2026.
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GH-700 at a glance
| Certification | GitHub Certified: Agentic AI Business Professional |
|---|---|
| Exam | GH-700: Enhancing Operational Efficiency with Agentic AI |
| Status | Beta. Microsoft expects general availability in December 2026. |
| Time | 100 minutes, proctored. The exam can include interactive tasks. |
| Passing score | 700 on a scale of 1 to 1,000 |
| Language | English |
| Results | Beta exams are not scored right away. Microsoft's announcement says rescoring starts when the exam goes live and final results follow about 10 days later. The certification page says about eight weeks after the beta ends. |
| Exam fee | Varies by the country or region where you take the exam. Check the price when you schedule on Microsoft Learn. |
| Official training | None yet. The certification page says "No training available for this exam." |
Source: GitHub Certified: Agentic AI Business Professional on Microsoft Learn and the GH-700 study guide. Checked 26 October 2026.
GH-700 beta discount: 80% off for the first 300 candidates
Microsoft's announcement offers 80% off the exam to the first 300 people who take GH-700 (beta) on or before 9 November 2026. Enter the code GH700B8F5 when you pay during registration. You must take the exam, not only book it, by 9 November. The seats are first come, first served, and the discount is not available in Turkey, Pakistan, India or China.
Only 300 seats are discounted, so check that the code is accepted when you pay before you plan around the lower price.
Who the GH-700 exam is for
The study guide names product managers, program managers, technical project managers and business analysts. You do not need deep software development or coding experience. You do need some experience with generative AI, and it helps to have used GitHub. The guide also expects experience managing projects, products or processes and making decisions about quality, speed, risk and control.
The exam checks that you can use GitHub and GitHub Copilot for business work: plan and track work in GitHub, get reliable output from Copilot, design and run agentic workflows, and stay in control of those workflows through approvals, reviews and monitoring.
What the GH-700 exam covers
The exam has four skill areas. The weights below are the share of exam questions from each area.
| Skill area | Weight | What it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Use GitHub platform features | 20–25% | Copilot budgets and token usage, organization policies, secrets, governance and privacy controls, responsible AI, branch strategy, choosing models, skills, prompts and instructions, when to use MCP servers, GitHub Projects, issues, pull requests and wikis |
| Enhance productivity by using GitHub Copilot | 20–25% | Choosing a model, managing chat sessions, selecting an agent, @ mentions, slash commands, writing prompts with clear inputs and output format, checkpoints, and creating and controlling custom agents |
| Design and implement agentic workflows and automations | 25–30% | Finding good use cases, breaking them into tasks, decision criteria, workflow files, schedules, permissions and outputs, self-critique loops, triggers, tools, skills and MCP servers |
| Perform human-in-the-loop tasks for agentic workflows | 20–25% | Where a person must decide, interactive, plan and autopilot modes, escalation paths, approving, rejecting or revising agent work, fixing failed runs, stopping a run, and reviewing and monitoring runs |
Most questions cover generally available features. The study guide says preview features can appear if they are commonly used.
Every line of the study guide is explained in plain English in the GH-700 study guide, with a free lesson for each skill area.
Terms you will see in GH-700 questions
- Copilot CLI: GitHub Copilot in the terminal, where you type requests and Copilot runs commands.
- Copilot cloud agent: the Copilot that works on a task in the background and opens a pull request for you to review.
- Custom agent: a saved Copilot setup with its own instructions and list of allowed tools that your team can pick.
- Agentic workflow: a Markdown file in the repository with instructions an AI agent follows on a schedule or when something happens in GitHub. It runs in GitHub Actions.
- Copilot automation: a separate Copilot feature, set up in the repository settings, that starts Copilot cloud agent with a saved prompt when a trigger fires.
- MCP server: a connector that gives Copilot access to an outside tool or data source, using the Model Context Protocol.
- Human-in-the-loop: the points where a person approves, rejects, corrects or stops what an agent does.
Is GH-700 hard if you are not a developer?
You will not write code, but you are expected to know how GitHub works. Questions about workflow files, triggers, permissions and pull requests are easy for someone who uses GitHub every week and hard for someone who has only read about it. The largest skill area, agentic workflows, is also the newest, and parts of it are still changing.
If you have not used GitHub before, spend a few hours in a test repository first: create a project and an issue, open and link a pull request, chat with Copilot, and run one agentic workflow. Then take a practice test to find your weak areas.
GH-700 vs GH-300
| GH-700 | GH-300 | |
|---|---|---|
| Certification | GitHub Certified: Agentic AI Business Professional | GitHub Copilot |
| Main audience | Product, program and project managers, business analysts | Developers, DevOps engineers, technology managers |
| Focus | Using Copilot and agents for business work, and supervising agents | Using Copilot to write, test and secure code |
| Coding experience | No deep coding experience needed | Experience with one or more programming languages expected |
| Status | Beta | Generally available |
How to prepare for GH-700
Read the study guide
Go through every line of the official study guide and mark the tasks you have never done. Our GH-700 study guide explains each line in plain English.
Do the tasks in GitHub
Use a test repository to try each marked task: projects, issues, pull requests, Copilot chat, custom agents and an agentic workflow with an approval step.
Practise and review
Take the free 20-question GH-700 practice test. Read the explanation and the linked GitHub documentation for every question you miss. For full tests of 200 questions and prep material, click here.
Free GH-700 practice test
20 original questions in 40 minutes, spread across all four skill areas. You get your score, your result by skill area and an explanation for every answer option, with a link to the GitHub or Microsoft documentation behind it. No sign-up.
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For full tests of 200 questions and prep material, click here.
GH-700 practice tests and prep material
Timo sells two GH-700 products. You can buy either one or both here. After you pay, we email you a sign-in link to the Timo portal for Microsoft certifications at ms.timolabs.dev, where your products are ready.
| Product | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| GH-700 practice tests | 200 original questions in four timed 50-question mock exams. Every answer has an explanation and a link to the GitHub documentation that supports it. We recheck the questions every week while the exam is in beta. | US$15 |
| GH-700 prep material | One module for each of the four skill areas, written for product managers and business analysts, with a guided hands-on lab in a free GitHub test repository for each module. | US$15 |
| Both | The practice tests and the prep material. | US$25 |
The sign-in link goes to the email you register with when you buy. Sign in with that email; we send a six-digit code each time, with no password. Prep material modules are released from the first week of November, and you get each one in the portal as it opens. Buy one product now and add the other for US$15 later from the portal.
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GH-700 exam FAQs
How many questions are on the GH-700 exam?
Microsoft does not publish a fixed number for GH-700. You have 100 minutes, and Microsoft says most of its certification exams typically have 40 to 60 questions. Questions can include interactive tasks, and the same page links to Microsoft's free exam sandbox, where you can try the question formats before exam day.
What is the passing score for GH-700?
700 on a scale of 1 to 1,000. This is a scaled score, not a percentage.
When do GH-700 beta results come out?
Not straight away. Microsoft's announcement says beta rescoring starts when the exam goes live, with final results about 10 days later, and it expects general availability in December 2026. The certification page gives about eight weeks after the beta ends.
Is there an official GH-700 practice assessment?
The certification page says no training is available for this exam. It also points to a practice assessment on Microsoft's AI Skills Navigator, but that link goes to the AI Business Professional credential, not GH-700. Check the page before relying on it.
Are there GH-700 exam dumps?
Sites that sell "real exam questions" are selling recalled exam content, which breaks the Microsoft exam agreement and can get a result revoked. For a beta exam, they are also mostly guesswork. The practice questions on this site are written from the study guide and GitHub documentation, not from the exam.
Is this guide official?
No. Timo is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by GitHub or Microsoft. Always confirm exam details on Microsoft Learn.
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