Associate Cloud Workspace Administrator · Free Practice Question Easy
Question 11
You have been alerted to a phishing campaign. Emails appear to be coming from a common email service but are not legitimate. You have been asked to block these senders to prevent more users from receiving these phishing emails. What is your immediate course of action to block these emails from reaching your users?
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A
Create an SPF record in your DNS to deny all incoming emails from the specific domain.
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B
Request all users to report the phishing emails as spam.
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C
Create a custom Gmail filter to send these emails directly to the spam folder.
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D
Use the Google Admin Console to add the senders to the organization-wide 'Blocked Senders' list.
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Correct answer: D
A. Creating an SPF record in your DNS to deny all incoming emails from the specific domain is not the immediate course of action to block these phishing emails. While SPF records can help with email authentication and prevent spoofing, adding the senders to the 'Blocked Senders' list in the Admin Console will directly block these specific emails from reaching users.
B. Requesting all users to report the phishing emails as spam is not the most efficient immediate course of action to block these emails. While user reports can help identify phishing emails, adding the senders to the 'Blocked Senders' list in the Admin Console will provide a more direct and effective solution to prevent further delivery of these emails.
C. Creating a custom Gmail filter to send these emails directly to the spam folder is not the most effective immediate course of action to block these phishing emails. While filtering emails to the spam folder can help users identify potential threats, adding the senders to the 'Blocked Senders' list in the Admin Console will prevent these emails from being delivered altogether.
D. Using the Google Admin Console to add the senders to the organization-wide 'Blocked Senders' list is the correct course of action to immediately block these phishing emails from reaching your users. This action will prevent any emails from the specified senders from being delivered to any user within the organization.
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