Your company wants to start using Google Workspace for email. Your domain is verified through a third-party provider. You need to route the email to Google Workspace. What should you do?

Question

Options

• AChange your domain's A record to point to Google's mail servers.
• BConfigure a forwarding rule in your current email system to redirect all messages to Gmail.
• CUpdate your domain's MX records to the Google Workspace MX records provided in the setup
• DCreate a CNAME record that maps your domain to "gmail.com."

• A
  4% (1)
• B
  4% (1)
• C
  81% (21)
• D
  12% (3)

Explanation

MX (Mail Exchange) DNS records are what determine which mail servers receive email for a domain. To route your domain's incoming email to Google Workspace, you must update the domain's MX records to the values Google provides during setup. Option A is incorrect because A records map a domain to an IP address for web traffic, not mail delivery. Option B (email forwarding rules) is a workaround that depends on the old system remaining operational and introduces latency and potential failure points. Option D is incorrect because a CNAME to 'gmail.com' does not configure mail routing and is not a valid MX record.

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