What step do you take to populate contact information for all users?

You act as the Google Workspace Administrator for a company that has just acquired another organization. The acquired company will be migrated into your Workspace environment in 6 months. Management has asked you to ensure that the Google Workspace users you currently manage can efficiently access rich contact information in Workspace for all users. This needs to occur before the migration, and optimally without additional expenditure.

What step do you take to populate contact information for all users?
A . Bulk-upload the contact information for these users via CSV into the Google Directory.
B. Use the Domain Shared Contacts API to upload contact information for the acquired company’s users.
C. Provision and license Google Workspace accounts for the acquired company’s users because they will need accounts in the future.
D. Prepare an uploadable file to be distributed to your end users that allows them to add the acquired company’s user contact information to their personal contacts.

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Answer: B

Explanation:

The Domain Shared Contacts API lets your applications get and update external contacts that are shared with all users in a Google Workspace domain. Shared contacts are visible to all users of a Google Workspace domain and all Google services have access to the contact list https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/domain-shared-contacts/overview