Google Workspace certification
Certification exam guide
Evaluate your readiness to successfully complete the Google Workspace certification exam. Remember that hands-on experience is the best preparation!
Review the exam guide below for a detailed look at the topics and tasks that may appear on the exam.
1. Using Drive
- Copying
- Moving to trash
- Downloading to hard drive
- Uploading from hard drive
- Moving
- Renaming
- Removing (moving to trash)
- Uploading folders from hard drive
- Search
- Recent
- Shared with me
- Computer and device sync settings
- Grid or list view
- File or folder details
- Offline accessibility
- Notifications (adding content, delete a file)
- Folder activity (for example, last modified date)
- Add to My Drive
- Assign or removing ownership
- Permission settings (Off, Folders: organize, add, edit; view only; Docs: edit, comment, view)
- Sharing notifications
- Publish to web
1.1 Managing files. Considerations include:
1.2 Creating and managing folders. Considerations include:
1.3 Locating files. Methods include:
1.4 Changing display and settings. Settings include:
1.5 Sharing files and folders. Options include:
2. Using Gmail
- Set vacation responder
- Desktop notifications
- Language and Display preferences
- Applying filters and blocking addresses
- Archiving messages
- Mute
- Multiple inboxes
- Composing, replying/reply all, forwarding email messages, CCing, BCCing
- Launching a text chat
- Launching a video call
- Sharing files (attaching or linking)
- Inserting image
- Searching and sorting your inbox
- Sent messages
- Drafts
2.1 Personalizing settings
2.2 Managing your inbox. Considerations include:
2.3 Managing and communicating with contacts. Considerations include:
2.4 Locating messages
2.5 Using Gmail Offline.
3. Using Hangouts Meet
- Muting microphone
- Turning camera off
- Reducing bandwidth
- Dialing in
- Inviting users
- Hangouts chat
- Muting other users
- Ejecting users
3.1 Scheduling a Hangout
3.2 Launching a Hangout
3.3 Presenting your screen in a Hangout
3.4 Managing sound, video and bandwidth. Actions include:
Managing meetings with Hangouts. Features include:
4. Working in Docs
- Page size, orientation, and color
- Adding footers, headers, and page numbers
- Adding Table of Contents
- Images
- Tables
- External links
- In Doc linking
- Bookmarks
- Font
- Font size
- Text and highlight color
- Bold, italic, underline
- Paragraph styles
- Alignment
- Line and paragraph spacing
- Columns
- Numbering and bullets
- Spelling
- Personal dictionary
- Creating/deleting tables
- Inserting/deleting rows and columns
- Managing table properties, such as color, border, dimensions, and alignment
- Comments
- Editing
- Suggesting
- Revision history
4.1 Setting up pages. Factors include:
4.2 Inserting non-text elements. Elements include:
4.3 Changing text attributes. Attributes include:
4.4 Formatting text blocks. Attributes include:
4.5 Using content management tools. Tools include:
4.6 Inserting and editing tables. Actions include:
4.7 Collaborating and sharing in Docs. Considerations include:
4.8 Download as
5. Working in Sheets
- Adding
- Deleting
- Freezing
- Inserting
- Bolding and italicizing
- Merging cells
- Text wrapping
- Fill color
- Borders
- Data validation
- Alignment
- Fonts
- Font size
- Date formats
- Currency
- Adding, deleting, copying, copy to…, and renaming sheets
- Charts
- Images
- Links
- Forms
- Drawings
- Function list
- SUM
- AVERAGE
- MIN
- MAX
- COUNT
- Conditional formatting
- Naming, sorting, and protecting sheets and ranges
- Creating filters and filter views
- Validating data
- Protecting sheets
- Creating and modifying charts
- Comments
- Revision history
- Download as
- .csv
- .xls
5.1 Managing values, rows, cells, or columns. Considerations include:
5.2 Formatting sheets and cells. Considerations include:
5.3 Inserting non-text elements. Elements include:
5.4 Using functions. Basic tools and functions include:
5.5 Managing and transforming data. Considerations include:
5.6 Collaborating and sharing in Sheets. Considerations include:
5.7 Importing and converting from other file types. File types include:
6. Working in Slides
- Adding, copying, deleting slides
- Apply layouts and themes
- Presenter notes
- Creating animations
- Copy and paste slides and adjust to destination formatting
- Linking slides
- Inserting text blocks
- Font
- Font size
- Text and highlight color
- Bold, italic, underline
- Setting capitalization
- Images
- Charts
- Diagrams
- Lines
- Shapes
- Tables
- Slide numbers
- Videos
- Sending to front or back
- Group/ungroup
- Alignment
- Rotation
- Distribute
- Snap-to guiding lines
- Resizing
- Presenter view
- Print settings and preview
- Publish to web
6.1 Building a presentation. Considerations include:
6.2 Working with text. Factors include:
6.3 Working with non-text elements. Actions include inserting and working with:
6.4 Arranging objects. Actions include:
6.5 Sharing a presentation. Considerations include: