Cohesity Data Protection Associate

The target audience for the Cohesity Data Protection Associate exam includes all technical and semi-technical roles such as: data protection administrators, operators, or help desk staff, system administrators, college/university students and/or graduates, and Cohesity and Partner Employees in roles such as Pre-sales, Services, Support, etc.

Products covered in this exam include:

• Cohesity Data Cloud platform
• Cohesity DataProtect
• Cohesity SmartFiles
• Cohesity CloudArchive
• Cohesity Replication

• Familiarity with relevant Cohesity documentation (e.g., manuals, documents, whitepapers)
• Completion of Cohesity Platform Foundations and Cohesity Data Protection Operations courses
• The candidate should have six months of hands-on experience with the Cohesity platform and DataProtect in an operator or administrator-level role
• Familiarity with the Cohesity UI

• Cohesity Data Cloud User Guide
• Cohesity Data Cloud Technical Guides
• Cohesity Data Cloud Release Notes
• Cohesity Support Portal, including the Knowledgebase

Section 1 – Fundamentals of the Cohesity Data Cloud Platform Concepts (13.33%)

• Identify source and object concepts
• Describe the Cohesity platform characteristics
• Describe storage domain concepts and configuration options

Section 2 – Data Protection Fundamentals (18.33%)

• Identify source registration requirements and procedures
• Working with Cohesity Agents
• Configuring backups that meet established recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs)
• Describe the components of a Cohesity protection policy
• Describe the differences between application and crash consistent backups

Section 3 – Protection Concepts (18.33%)

• Identify the types of objects that can be protected by Cohesity DataProtect
• Identify protection Policy concepts
• Describe how to configure protection policies that meet specific RPOs
• Describe how to configure Protection Groups to ensure a consistent backup
• Describe the purpose of a backup service-level agreement (SLA)
• Describe the purpose of a backup window
• Describe the Cohesity workflow for protecting virtual machines (VMs)

Section 4 – Recovery Concepts (21.67%)

• Identify recovery concepts
• Describe the different options for recovering objects
• Describe how to perform a recovery
• Describe how to perform a recovery that does not impact the availability of existing systems
• Describe Cohesity dev/test workflows

Section 5 – Data Management Components (16.67%)

• Identify native Cohesity file services capabilities
• Identify the cloud services that Cohesity Data Cloud platform natively supports
• Describe Cohesity replication concepts
• Describe Cohesity archival concepts

Section 6 – Monitoring and Reporting (11.67%)

• Identify the different task state status types for a Protection Group
• Describe how to determine if Protection Groups have met their SLAs
• Describe how to check the status of a backup
• Describe the available performance monitoring metrics
• Identify the critical performance measurements shown on the Cohesity performance dashboard
• Describe how to use Cohesity Data Cloud platform reporting to verify compliance with backup SLAs
• Describe how to create reports that demonstrate the health or status of data protection tasks