Google Professional Collaboration Engineer for Workspace Professional Certificate

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Learn Path Description

This specialization has been developed to help administrators master the foundations of establishing and managing Google Workspace for their organization. You will set up a new Google Workspace account, and explore provisioning options. You will learn how to manage users and become familiar with organizational structures and Google Workspace core services. You will learn how to configure these services to meet your own organizational needs. You will be introduced to the best practices to protect your users and data. You will examine user and application security and become familiar with the Single Sign On options available. You will be able to use the tools provided to identify security events and mitigate problems that may arise. You will configure email compliance and implement measures to protect your organization from spam, spoofing, phishing and malware attacks. You will also become familiar with mail routing options available. Finally, you will learn the best practices for deploying Google Workspace for your organization. IMPORTANT - Before you enroll, you should be prepared to: - Provide credit card details as part of the trial account setup. No charges will be made to your card as long as you cancel the trial before the free period expires. For details, see About your Google Workspace free trial. - Purchase a new domain or use one that you already own. The domain you use IS NOT included as part of a Google Workspace trial. - Use the Chrome web browser.

Skills You Will Gain

Courses In This Learning Path

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Total Duration

7 hours

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Beginner

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Certifications

Introduction to Google Workspace Administration

Introduction to Google Workspace Administration (the first course in the Google Workspace Administration series) is the first.

This series is the best place to start for any new Google Workspace administrator as they embark on their journey of establishing and managing Google Workspace best practices in their organization. You will be able to use the admin console's basic functions to manage users, access services, set security settings, and more. This training will provide all the necessary skills to become a Google Workspace administrator. It includes a series readings, hands-on exercises and knowledge checks. This course will help you create a Google Workspace account, and set up your DNS records. Learn how to manage and provision users. You'll also learn how you can create groups and resources for your organization. Your Cloud Directory will be presented to you. You will also learn how to divide your organization into units that will simplify service and user management. You will also learn how to grant admin rights to other users within your organization. Important: To make the most of this training course, learners must be able to:
- Buy a new domain from a registrar like enom, GoDaddy.
Notification: You can use an existing domain to participate in the trial, but this course doesn't provide any detailed instructions on how to link it with a Google Workspace trial account.

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Total Duration

8 hours

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Beginner

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Certifications

Managing Google Workspace

The second course in the Google Workspace Administration series is Managing Google Workspace.

This course focuses on core Google Workspace services like Gmail, Calendar, Drive & Docs, and Drive & Docs. This course will teach you how to enable or disable the different service settings for your users. Google Vault, Google's ediscovery tool, will be explained to you. You will be able search and filter information from the reports in the admin console. You will also learn how to add new domains to your account and how multiple domains can all be used with Google Workspace. Participants will be able enable and disable Google Workspace services in different areas of the company by the end of the course.
Configure common settings to Google Workspace core services like Gmail, Calendar and Drive.
Learn about the various mobile device management options in Google Workspace.
Google Vault - Learn how to use it to search, export and retain data from your company.
- Set up administrator alerts and navigate Google Workspace admin reports.
- This video will explain the basics of multidomain management within Google Workspace.

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Total Duration

6 hours

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Beginner

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Certifications

Google Workspace Security by Coursera

Google Workspace Security is the 3rd course in the Google Workspace Administration Series.

This course will cover the different aspects of Google Workspace Security, including user password policies. You'll also learn how to enforce two-step verification (2SV) for your users. Learn about application security, and how to whitelist or block API access to your account. It will be clear how Google Workspace integrates with many predefined third-party applications. The SSO options available in Google Workspace will be familiarized. You will also learn how to identify potential security threats within your organization and how to address them with the tools in the admin console. Participants will be able:

- Setup Google's default user security settings, including password policies and recovery options.

Learn best practices to implement and enforce 2-step verification within your organization.

Learn about the SSO options and the differences between using Google as an identity provider and a third party provider.

- Use Google as your Identity Provider to integrate cloud-based enterprise SAML apps into your Google Workspace account.

Learn how to integrate your own LDAP-compliant applications into Google Workspace with the Secure LDAP service.

To prevent malicious attacks, restrict access to Google services to trusted applications.

Manage the Google Workspace Marketplace to make sure only trusted apps can be installed on your devices.

- Use security and alert centres to triage and address security and privacy concerns in your company. Prerequisites: You must have completed the Introduction to Google Workspace Administration or Managing Google Workspace courses.

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Total Duration

6 hours

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Beginner

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Certifications

Google Workspace Mail Management

Google Workspace Mail Management, the fourth course in Google Workspace Administration.

This course will teach you how to protect your company against spam, spoofing and phishing attacks. This course will teach you how to set up email compliance and implement data loss prevention (DLP). Learn how to whitelist or block senders and gain an understanding about the various mail routing options. Other mail options, such as 3rd-party email archiving and inbound gateways, will be covered.

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Total Duration

5 hours

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Beginner

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Planning for a Google Workspace Deployment

The final course in the Google Workspace Administration series is Planning for a Google Workspace Delivery. This course will introduce you to Google's deployment process and best practices. As the Technical Project Leader at Galaxy Sola, Jon will play the role. Your task is to provide Google Workspace to users without causing any disruption. The core technical areas of provisioning and mail flow, data migration, coexistence, and coexistence will be your focus. Tunj, the I.T. Manager, will help you to review your options and then together, you will create a deployment strategy.

The importance of Change Management in a Google Workspace installation will be discussed. This is to ensure that users have a seamless transition to Google Workspace, and reap the benefits of work transformation via support, communications, and training. This course is only a course in theory. You won't be able to do any hands-on exercises. If you don't have a Google Workspace trial, cancel it now to avoid paying unnecessary charges. Participants will be able:

- Explain Google's three-phase deployment process. - Explain how Google Workspace handles domains of different types and describe the process for provisioning them.
- How users, groups, and other objects are provisioned into Google Workspace.
Discuss mail routing types, and discuss how routing should be configured in each phase of a Google Workspace deployment.
- Discuss migration options and make recommendations based on organizational preferences/needs.
- How to migrate mail, contacts and calendar data using Google Workspace Migration For Microsoft Exchange (GWMME).
Discuss coexistence issues, in particular with regard to calendar coexistence.
- Explain Change Management, people's resistance to change and the reasons that projects fail when Change Management has not been considered.

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