Google Workspace admin interview questions
95 questions with model answers and what each one is really testing. Open one, answer it out loud, then mark whether you had it.
Access and identity
Organisational units and groups
The structural decision everything else hangs off: OUs carry policy, groups carry access, and confusing the two bends your whole tree out of shape.
Context-Aware Access, properly
How Context-Aware Access is actually assembled, a rollout that survives real users, and the four ways it goes wrong in production.
Admin access and break-glass
How to keep super admin counts honest, why admins need separate accounts, and how to build a break-glass account that actually works when you need it.
The employee lifecycle
Joiner, mover, leaver
How to automate the identity lifecycle in Google Workspace, why ordering matters on the leaver side, and why the mover event is the one everybody skips.
PeopleHR to Google Workspace, without buying a tool
Provision Google Workspace accounts from PeopleHR with Apps Script and the Admin SDK: the reconciliation pattern, working code, and a circuit breaker.
What a leaver's account costs
Keeping departed staff's data means paying for accounts nobody uses. How to decide the retention period per person, and what it takes to actually get back into one.
Data, mail and retention
DLP without breaking the business
How a Workspace DLP rule is built, why every rollout starts in audit only, and the five failure modes that get DLP switched off.
SPF, DKIM and DMARC
What each of the three actually does, why alignment is the whole point, and how to move DMARC to reject without losing legitimate mail.
Vault is not a backup
What Google Vault actually does, why it cannot restore a shared drive to how it looked on Tuesday, and what to tell the person asking.