Cohesity Multicloud Solutions Associate

The target audience for the Multicloud Solutions Associate exam include all technical and semi-technical roles such as:

• Data center, cloud, backup, and file and object storage administrators, operators, or help desk staff
• System administrators
• College/university students and/or graduates
• 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 CloudArchive
• Cohesity CloudTier
• Cohesity Replication

• Familiarity with relevant Cohesity documentation (e.g., manuals, documents, whitepapers)
• Completion of Cohesity Platform Foundations, Data Protection Operations and Platform Administration courses
• The candidate should have six months of hands-on experience with the Cohesity deployments in the public cloud and Cohesity features that leverage cloud resources 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 – Cohesity Cloud Concepts (21.67%)

• Describe the supported delivery models for the Cohesity platform
• Identify Cohesity cloud solutions
• Describe the use cases for Cohesity cloud solutions
• Identify native Cohesity cloud features
• Identify the difference between archiving and tiering with Cohesity
• Describe cloning and moving VMs to the public cloud using CloudSpin
• Identify cloud-based disaster recovery features

Section 2 – Archiving with Cohesity (20%)

• Describe how Cohesity’s archive function can support disaster recovery
• Identify the workflows used when working with CloudArchive.
• Describe the options for CloudArchive External Targets
• Describe the recovery options available for organizations that use CloudArchive.
• Describe the disaster recovery process using CloudRetrieve
• Identify CloudArchive Direct configuration options

Section 3 – Tiering with Cohesity (10%)

• Describe the benefits of tiering to the cloud using CloudTier
• Describe CloudTier configuration options
• Describe how to configure an external target for CloudTier
• Identify the workflows used when working with CloudTier
• Describe the options available for CloudTier

Section 4 – Cloud-native backups with Cohesity (15%)

• Describe how to configure Cohesity for native operation in AWS, Azure or GCP
• Describe how networking with Cohesity running native in the cloud is different than that for an on premises Cohesity cluster
• Identify supported cloud-native backup operations

Section 5 – Cloud migration with Cohesity (8.33%)

• Identify the use cases for moving VMs to and from the public cloud using CloudSpin
• Describe CloudSpin configuration operations
• Describe how to perform a CloudSpin operation
• Describe how to use the dev/test clone feature using CloudSpin

Section 6 – Deployment Considerations (25%)

• Describe different types of cloud storage supported by CloudArchive
• Deployment prerequisites for configuring CloudArchive with public cloud providers
• Identify requirements for deploying and running Cohesity natively in ‘public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Identify the additional features that are available when you have deployed the Cohesity platform both on premises and in the cloud
• Identify the registration requirements for cloud sources
• Identify the SaaS applications that can be protected using the Cohesity platform