Amplified Admin Certifications
Master the Skills Necessary to Effectively Manage your Google Workspace
for Education Domain.
The Amplified Admin Certifications are a collective program of courses designed to validate the knowledge of your school’s K-12 technical staff and sharpen their skills to better manage your Google Workspace for Education domain and more effectively configure the Google Admin console for teaching and learning.
Drive the Advancement of Your Technical Staff
Google for Education makes consistent setting and feature updates to continue meeting the growing needs of the education industry. It is the responsibility of your IT department to implement any changes so there is no lapse in operability for your administrators, teachers and students. Not having the knowledge necessary to adjust the Admin console, however, can lead to misconfigurations that affect the safety and utility of the entire domain. Whether they are new or experienced Google Admins, Amplified Admin Certifications equip your technical staff with everything they need to know about key and complex settings, proactive security features, EDU best practices, Chrome management and more at a live virtual event or in a self-paced format.
Amplified Admin Level 1 Certification: The Admin Console Basics
The Amplified Admin Level 1 Certification will guide your technical staff through educational best practices, Admin console skills and techniques and key-setting configurations including:
- User-provisioning
- OU set-up
- Activation or deactivation of critical services
- Chrome management
- Google Vault management
- Reporting
Prerequisite: None*
*1-3 months of admin console experience is recommended prior to taking the course
Amplified Admin Level 2 Certification: Advanced Technical Skills
The Amplified Admin Level 2 Certification builds on the basics learned in Level 1 to help your technical staff leverage Gmail, Drive and Chrome, and solve cybersecurity challenges by addressing more complex settings such as:
- Content compliance rules
- Gmail settings
- Advanced group management
- API controls
- Third-party app control
- Kiosk mode
- Data Protection
- Data loss prevention
- Classroom and Meet settings
- Chrome user experience
Prerequisite: Amplified Admin Level 1 Certification
Amplified Admin Security Specialist Certification: Protecting End Users
The Amplified Admin Security Specialist Certification provides technical staff with a comprehensive understanding of cybersecurity risk factors and how to mitigate them through:
- Admin console setting configurations for:
- Workspace account security and setup
- Admin roles
- Password policy
- Data loss prevention
- Investigation tool
- Security health
- Security dashboard
- User security
- Directory management
- Two-step verification
- Third-party apps
- Context-aware access
- Advanced Gmail security
- Account recovery
- Walled gardens
- Drive sharing
- Restrict delivery
- Meet security
- Google Vault management
- Reports and troubleshooting
Prerequisite: Amplified Admin Level 1 & 2 Certifications
Amplified Admin Chrome Specialist Certification: Maintaining a Fleet of Devices
The Amplified Admin Chrome Specialist Certification teaches technical staff best practices for managing Chrome and Chrome, Windows and Mac devices in your Google environment through:
- User and browser settings
- Security
- Filtering
- User experience
- Accessibility
- Apps and extensions
- Enrollment
- Network settings
- Profile management
- Safety settings
- Printing
- Hardware controls
- ChromeOS updates
- Sign-in controls
- Troubleshooting and logs
- Reports
Prerequisite: Amplified Admin Level 1 Certification
Amplified Admin Chrome Specialist Bundle
The Amplified Admin Chrome Specialist Bundle includes the self-paced Level 1 and Chrome Specialist Certification courses to cover the fundamentals of Google Admin console’s settings and comprehensive Chrome device management.
Prerequisite: None
Amplified Admin Security Specialist Bundle
The Amplified Admin Security Specialist Bundle includes the self-paced Level 1, Level 2, and Security Specialist Certification courses. It dives into the fundamentals of the Google Admin console, advanced best practices for complex settings, and safeguarding your domain.
Prerequisite: None