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Google Workspace Administrator Exam Practice Test
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The Google Professional Workspace Administrator exam assesses the candidate's ability to plan, deploy, secure, and monitor Workspace. The exam has five domains, each with different topics: Domain 1: Understand and manage objects Domain 2: Learn to access and authenticate data Domain 3: Understand how to configure services Domain 4: Learn to support business initiatives Domain 5: Understand troubleshooting  Some topics covered in the exam include: Designing security integration and addressing objections Scanning email with Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Configuring policies for all... Show more
Google Workspace Administrator Exam Practice Test
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1. The credentials of several individuals within your organization have recently been stolen. Using the Google Workspace login logs, you have determined that in several cases, the stolen credentials have been used in countries other than the ones your organization works in. What else can you do to increase your organization's defense-in-depth strategy?
2. You are in the middle of migrating email from on-premises Microsoft Exchange to Google Workspace. Users that you have already migrated are complaining of messages from internal users going into spam folders. What should you do to ensure that internal messages do not go into Gmail spam while blocking spoofing attempts?
3. Your organization does not allow users to share externally. The security team has recently approved an exemption for specific members of the marketing team and sales to share documents with external customers, prospects, and partners. How best would you achieve this?
4. As a team manager, you need to create a vacation calendar that your team members can use to share their time off. You want to use the calendar to visualize online status for team members, especially if multiple individuals are on vacation What should you do to create this calendar?
5. Your organization is using Password Sync to sync passwords from Active Directory to Google Workspace. A user changed their network password and cannot log in to Google Workspace with the new password. What steps should you take to troubleshoot this issue?
6. Your Finance team has to share quarterly financial reports in Sheets with an external auditor. The external company is not a Workspace customer and allows employees to access public sites such as Gmail and Facebook. How can you provide the ability to securely share content to collaborators that do not have a Google Workspace or consumer (Gmail) account?
7. Your company has a broad, granular IT administration team, and you are in charge of ensuring proper administrative control. One of those teams, the security team, requires access to the Security Investigation Tool. What should you do?
8. As the Workspace Administrator, you have been asked to delete a temporary Google Workspace user account in the marketing department. This user has created Drive documents in My Documents that the marketing manager wants to keep after the user is gone and removed from Workspace. The data should be visible only to the marketing manager. As the Workspace Administrator, what should you do to preserve this user's Drive data?
9. Your company is using Google Workspace Business Standard. The company has five meeting rooms that are all registered as resources in Google Workspace and used on a daily basis by the employees when organizing meetings. The office layout was changed last weekend, and one of the meeting rooms is now a dedicated room for management. The CEO is complaining that anyone can book the room and requested this room to be used only by the management team and their executive assistants (EAs). No one else must be allowed to book it via Google Calendar. What should you do?
10. Your organization has a new security requirement around data exfiltration on iOS devices. You have a requirement to prevent users from copying content from a Google app (Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides) in their work account to a Google app in their personal account or a third-party app. What steps should you take from the admin panel to prevent users from copying data from work to non-work apps on iOS devices?
11. Your company recently acquired an organization that was not leveraging Google Workspace. Your company is currently using Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS) to sync from an LDAP directory into Google Workspace. You want to deploy a second instance of GCDS and apply the same strategy with the newly acquired organization, which also has its users in an LDAP directory. How should you change your GCDS instance to ensure that the setup is successful?
12. As the Workspace Administrator, you have been asked to configure Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS) in order to manage Google Group memberships from an internal LDAP server. However, multiple Google Groups must have their memberships managed manually. When you run the GCDS sync, you notice that these manually managed groups are being deleted. What should you do to prevent these groups from being deleted?
13. Your marketing department needs an easy way for users to share items more appropriately. They want to easily link-share Drive files within the marketing department, without sharing them with your entire company. What should you do to fulfil this request?
14. Your organization has noticed several incidents of accidental oversharing inside the organization. Specifically, several users have shared sensitive Google Drive items with the entire organization by clicking 'anyone in this group with this link can view'. You have been asked by senior management to help users share more appropriately and also to prevent accidental oversharing to the entire organization. How would you best accomplish this?
15. What steps does an administrator need to take to enforce TLS with a particular domain?
16. Your organization recently implemented context-aware access policies for Google Drive to allow users to access Drive only from corporate managed desktops. Unfortunately, some users can still access Drive from non-corporate managed machines. What preliminary checks should you perform to find out why the Context-Aware Access policy is not working as intended?
17. Your organization is preparing to deploy Workspace and will continue using your company's existing identity provider for authentication and single sign-on (SSO). In order to migrate data from an external system, you were required to provision each user's account in advance. Your IT team and select users (~5% of the organization) have been using Workspace for configuration and testing purposes. The remainder of the organization can technically access their accounts now, but the IT team wants to block their access until the migrations are complete. What should your organization do?
18. An end user informs you that they are having issues receiving mail from a specific sender that is external to your organization. You believe the issue may be caused by the external entity's SPF record being incorrectly configured. Which troubleshooting step allows you to examine the full message headers for the offending message to determine why the messages are not being delivered?
19. You are the Workspace administrator for an international organization with Enterprise Plus Workspace licensing. A third of your employees are located in the United States, another third in Europe, and the other third geographically dispersed around the world. European employees are required to have their data stored in Europe. The current OU structure for your organization is organized by business unit, with no attention to user location. How do you configure Workspace for the fastest end user experience while also ensuring that European user data is contained in Europe?
20. A user is reporting that external, inbound messages from known senders are repeatedly being incorrectly classified as spam. What steps should the admin take to prevent this behavior in the future?
21. Your IT team is being asked to fulfill a query by your organization's legal department that requires an MBOX file that will be shared to a third-party partner for eDiscovery. The query must be run on multiple users. Legal has no admin rights to Google Vault. What should you do to fulfil the request?
22. Your organization wants more visibility into actions taken by Google staff related to your data for audit and security reasons. They are specifically interested in understanding the actions performed by Google support staff with regard to the support cases you have opened with Google. What should you do to gain more visibility?
23. You have been asked to support an investigation that your litigation team is conducting. The current default retention policy for mail is 180 days, and there are no custom mail retention policies in place. The litigation team has identified a user who is central to the investigation, and they want to investigate the mail data related to this user without the user's awareness. What two actions should you take?
24. A disgruntled employee has left your company and deleted all their email messages and files in Google Drive. The security team is aware that some intellectual property may have surfaced on a public social media site. What is the first step to start an investigation into this leak?
25. You are in charge of automating and configuring Google Cloud Directory Sync for your organization. Within the config manager, how can you proactively prevent applying widespread deletions within your Workspace environment if your company's LDAP undergoes a substantial modification?