Professional Google Workspace Administrator Exam Preparation

Set up your Google Workspace account by choosing a domain, creating the admin, and starting a 14-day free trial, then verify domain ownership in the admin console.

Navigate the admin console to manage users, groups, and organizational units; control apps, devices, billing, security, and storage; generate reports, set rules, and search across the workspace.

Verify ownership of a domain to activate services like Google Workspace. Add dns records such as txt and mx in domain registrar's control panel to ensure email deliverability and security.

Verify your domain and activate Gmail for your Google workspace by configuring DNS and MX records. Learn to use Namecheap DNS and TXT verification for domain protection.

Verify domains from different registrars using registrar-specific, step-by-step guides with screenshots or videos, and identify your domain host to access tailored DNS steps and resources.

Compare Google Workspace pricing and plan options from starter to enterprise, noting storage per user, meeting recording and participant limits, security features, and add-ons like vault and duet AI.

Explore organizational units in Google Workspace and their hierarchies. See how top-level units govern settings and how child units inherit or override policies for departments, offices, and projects.

Create organizational units in Google Workspace by navigating to directory, selecting organizational units, and building a hierarchy with parent and child units such as sales and its subunits. Plan your structure before creating units, name and describe each unit, and use units to apply specific settings and delegate tasks to managers.

Learn how to manage users and groups in the admin console, assign access control, and use email distribution, security, and dynamic groups for targeted communication and collaboration.

Learn to create and manage new users in the admin console, configure emails and organizational units, set passwords, enable two-step verification, and assign roles and groups.

Learn how Google Workspace licenses map to individual user accounts, how to view licenses in the admin console, manage subscriptions and limits, and optimize costs by adding or removing users.

Learn how to bulk create or update Google Workspace users by downloading a CSV template, updating user data and organizational units, and uploading for bulk processing.

Create and manage groups in the Google Workspace admin console, configure access types and posting permissions, invite or bulk add members via CSV, and inspect or modify group settings.

Explore groups in action with Google Groups, showing how admin posts reach all members, how to manage who can post, and how access controls secure collaboration.

Configure Google Groups conversation history to keep conversations and email digest, post test messages, and verify history appears for members while admin can reply.

Perform bulk updates of Google Workspace users by downloading and editing csv templates, uploading results, and also update single users with password resets and two-step verification.

Learn the meanings and differences of deleting, suspending, and recovering users in Google Workspace, including data transfer, 20 days recovery window, and license implications.

Create and manage sub organizational units inside Google Workspace using the admin console, enabling granular access control and inherited settings with optional overwrites.

Organize users into organizational units in the admin console, move users between units, and override or inherit service settings to control apps like Google Meet and Appsheet across subunits.

Explore data migration from a personal Gmail to a Google Workspace domain, and between Google Workspace accounts, using the data migration tool and Microsoft Exchange migration options.

Migrate a business Gmail account to Google Workspace by using the data migration tool in the admin console, selecting Gmail as source, configuring dates, and monitoring progress.

Configure data migration in Google Workspace, set the start date, and exclude folders as needed. Add users individually or via csv bulk, entering source and destination emails.

Discover how Google Drive delivers cloud storage and real-time collaboration within Google Workspace, and how Shared Drives provide team ownership, granular permissions, integration with Docs, Sheets, Slides, and admin controls.

Learn how to create and manage a Google Workspace shared drive, invite members with roles like viewer, commenter, contributor, content manager, or manager, and organize team files for collaboration.

Explore how to manage Google Drive in the admin console, including enabling the service for organizational units and groups, and configuring sharing, external access, and shared drives creation.

Create and manage target audiences in Google Workspace to tailor sharing in Drive and Chat, add members, apply audiences to services, and use cases like marketing to prevent unnecessary access.

Master shared drives management in Google Workspace by configuring storage, managing members and access levels, adjusting settings, and practicing restoration of deleted files within the admin console.

Learn how to transfer data between user drives in Google Workspace, moving all files to a successor while the original owner retains edit access, with conflict-free folder creation.

Manage drive settings to control which features and applications your organization’s users can access, including offline access, smart compose, add-ons, and file creation permissions.

Manage Google Drive templates and gallery, enable custom templates, organize categories, and set submission options; also configure the activity dashboard to track file activity and who viewed or edited files.

Enable and manage Google Drive for desktop, a PC or Mac app that syncs files with Google Drive, with organization controls, authorized devices, and flexible syncing options.

Learn to enable approvals in Google Drive, add approvers and due dates, apply labels for retention and policy enforcement, and manage Google Forms service status.

Learn to manage Gmail settings in Google Workspace, including service status, themes, read receipts, offline access, confidential mode, smart features, dynamic email, and layouts.

learn how to send personalized gmail messages at scale using mail merge with google sheets or google contacts, including tags, previews, unsubscribe controls, and step-by-step setup.

Configure email hosts in Google Workspace to enable advanced routing, add routes, manage single or multiple hosts, including custom mail servers, with host name or IP, port, and load percentage.

Explore mail routing in the Google Workspace admin console. Configure domain-wide rules to forward, reroute, or modify messages across multiple mailboxes.

Learn how to enable dkim authentication, a domainkeys identified mail protocol that adds a digital signature to outgoing emails, reducing spam and ensuring authenticated sender through dns txt records.

Learn how Gmail quarantine holds suspicious emails to protect users, including default and custom quarantines with review groups. Create inbound and outbound rules to route and act on messages.

Configure Gmail email safety settings to protect attachments, scripts, and external content. Enable iMap protections, link and image scanning, domain spoofing defenses, and quarantines to manage risky messages.

Explore Gmail's spam, phishing, and malware controls, including IP allow lists, pre-delivery scanning, and an inbound gateway. Create approved sender lists to bypass spam filters and manage quarantine.

Enable Gmail email delegation to grant mailbox access to delegates who can read, send, and archive messages, while preventing chat or password changes and enabling organizational unit or group controls.

Explore Gmail compliance settings, including auto deletion, content and attachment filters, and routing controls, to enforce legal standards, secure delivery, and governed email flows.

Manage Google Calendar sharing settings in the admin console, including external and internal sharing. Control event detail visibility, meeting invites, video conferencing defaults, and working hours.

Master creating and managing resources in Google Calendar, such as meeting rooms, projectors, and shared equipment, by defining buildings, adding resources, and using bulk CSV uploads.

Explore how to manage calendar events for suspended or deleted users, transfer or cancel events, and tailor advanced Google Calendar settings for invitations, offline access, time insights, and paid appointments.

Configure Google Meet video settings in Google Workspace, covering reactions, dial-in access, recording and streaming options, transcripts, attendance reporting, visual effects, and background replacement.

Explore google meet safety features in the admin settings, including who can join, host requirements, chat and screen-sharing permissions, and handling external participants to safeguard meetings.

Explore interoperability tokens that allow third-party endpoints to join Google Meet calls directly without approval, supporting providers like Pexip, Cisco, and Zoom.

Explore the quality tool to troubleshoot meetings with analytics on duration, network metrics, and audio-video details, then filter and download data to improve organizational meetings.

Learn to view reports and review activity in the Google Admin Console. Explore app, user, device, and audit reports, overview metrics, and external file sharing.

Explore app reports and app support in Google Workspace, analyzing accounts, Gmail, App Script, Classroom, Drive, Meet, and Chat usage, data region policy and API controls.

Review user reports across accounts, apps usage, and security to monitor activity in your organization. Filter and customize columns to view user status, two‑step verification, and storage usage.

Explore audit and investigation logs to track timestamped admin and user activities, enabling transparency, accountability, troubleshooting, compliance audits, and incident investigations in Google Workspace.

Explore email log search to review messages, using predefined or custom searches by sender, date, or message ID; filter sent or received and download results as Google Sheets or CSV.

Explore the Google workspace apps monthly uptime report to view service availability, see per-service uptime percentages (e.g., 99.99%), and identify which services are up or down.

Access carbon footprint reports to understand the environmental impact of your organization's use of Google Workspace products, view four reports: total, monthly, and location-based footprints by application, with view-only data.

Discover how to configure Google Vault retention rules for Gmail, Drive, and other apps, setting retention periods, purge criteria, and holds to meet compliance and regulatory needs.

Learn how matters in Google Vault collect holds, searches, and exports for investigations, and how holds differ from retention rules in admin workflows.

Explore the reports tab in Google Workspace to review domain, user, and group holds across organizational units, view hold details, and download a CSV to generate reports on existing holds.

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