Google Workspace / Collaboration governance / GW-DRIVE
Govern Drive, sharing, and collaboration
Build focused skills for organizational ownership, shared drives, external sharing, trust rules, classification, lifecycle, and investigation across Drive and collaboration services.
Stage 1 · Collaboration governance
Build the Workspace operating foundation
Start with lifecycle, policy targeting, domains, licenses, and the core services users depend on every day.
- 1.My Drive and shared-drive ownership models
- 2.Internal, external, and visitor sharing
Stage 2 · Governance, access, and operations
Protect data and keep services healthy
Continue with compliance, least-privilege administration, endpoints, monitoring, and evidence-led troubleshooting.
- 3.Groups, target audiences, and trust rules
- 4.Labels, classification, DLP, and data regions
- 5.Retention, holds, export, and deletion behavior
- 6.Drive audit, investigation, and recovery
Hands-on consolidation
Put it into practice
Create a synthetic collaboration model with internal, partner, and restricted teams. Define shared-drive roles, sharing boundaries, a label and DLP response, a retention requirement, and an investigation checklist for oversharing.
Ready to move on when…
You can choose the correct ownership model, prevent unintended external access, preserve required data, and investigate sharing events without confusing retention with recovery.
Use a test tenant and synthetic users and data. Never experiment with production retention, routing, access, or deletion settings.
Practice and review
Find gaps with our GW-DRIVE test
The test contains 75 independent practice questions, including interactive matching exercises. The first 7 questions are available in the free preview.
Try our GW-DRIVE practice test →Practice results are learning feedback, not an official Google result or a pass guarantee. Confirm current booking details with Google before scheduling.