Azure DevOps Engineer Exam: Question 14

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This is the A400 certification prep question number 14 of 50. Your organization wants to prevent accidental exposure of secrets in code committed to GitHub repositories. Which GitHub feature best helps detect leak secrets? A GitHub issues, B, GitHub advanced security with secret scanning, C, GitHub wiki content, or D GitHub project boards. Now, A is incorrect because issues are for tracking work, not for scanning code for secrets. C is incorrect because wikis are documentation storage and they do not scan for secrets. And D is incorrect because project boards track work items. They don't inspect the code's contents. The correct answer is B. GitHub advanced security includes secret scanning that automatically detects and alerts on known types of secrets such as API keys, connection strings, things like that that are accidentally committed to the repositories. This is the primary mechanism that GitHub provides for detecting leak secrets. Check out our A400 course on codecloud.com.