Cohesity File and Object Services Associate

The target audience for the Cohesity File and Object Services Associate exam include all technical and semi-technical roles such as:

• File and object storage administrators, operators, or help desk staff
• System administrators
• Professional services
• Cohesity and partner employees in roles such as pre-sales, services, support, etc.

Products covered in this exam include:

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

• Familiarity and experience with standard file & object services concepts
• Familiarity with the Cohesity UI
• Familiarity with relevant documentation (e.g., manuals, documents, industry standards recommended)
• Cohesity SmartFiles Administration course
• Cohesity Data Security Administration course
• 3-6 months experience on Cohesity SmartFiles

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

Section 1 – SmartFiles Administration Concepts (28.33%)

• Identify the protocols supported by Cohesity Views
• Describe the workflow used to create a Cohesity View
• Describe the Storage Domains settings for Views
• Describe how to encrypt data on Cohesity Views
• Describe the default behavior for Cohesity View quotas
• Identify the configuration features of Cohesity Views
• Describe the different Cohesity View QoS policies
• Describe how to administer Cohesity Views
• Describe how to protect Cohesity Views
• Identify Cohesity SmartFiles use cases

Section 2 – Marketplace Application Integration (16.67%)

• Identify what is needed to enable Cohesity Marketplace application support
• Describe the Cohesity Marketplace applications that can be integrated with Cohesity Views
• Describe how to search for data on Cohesity Views
• Describe how and why the Cohesity Marketplace applications Spotlight and Insight can be implemented with Cohesity Views
• Describe the steps needed to enable file services audit logs
• Describe how to troubleshooting file services audit logs
• Identify the procedures used to enable antivirus protection on a Cohesity View

Section 3 – NAS Migration and Tiering Concepts (16.67%)

• Identify the purpose of external NAS tiering jobs
• Identify the use cases for the external NAS tiering feature
• Describe the process used to migrate NAS data to a Cohesity View
• Describe how to administer data that has been tiered from a NAS to a Cohesity View

Section 4 – Disaster Recovery Concepts (18.33%)

• Describe Cohesity File Services archival options
• Identify Cohesity File Services disaster recovery options
• Describe Cohesity File Services failover options

Section 5 – Security and Compliance (20%)

• Demonstrate the ability to limit access to a share using allowlists or granular permissions
• Identify the allowlist requirements for access to SMB shares
• Identify the features of Cohesity Views that can be used to secure client data
• Describe Cohesity View protocol security options
• Identify which Cohesity View protocols are read-only versus read/write by default
• Identify the three different types of security parameters that can be configured on a Cohesity View
• Describe Cohesity View WORM compliance options
• Describe Cohesity View file auditing capabilities