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

Introduction to Cohesity Architecture
Overview of Data Platform
Discuss the Unique approach of Data Platform
Discuss HyperScale architecture
Components of HyperScale
Define Backup as a service architecture
Overview of Cloud Dashboard – Helios

• 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

• 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 (use case)
• 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)

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

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

• Identify the different task state status types for a backup job
• Describe how to determine if backup jobs 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 Helios reporting to verify compliance with backup SLAs
• Describe how to create reports that demonstrate the health or status of data protection tasks

• Cohesity Platform Relationships
• Overview of Storage Domains & View
• Features / Options
• View Creation Workflow
• Authentication – Local
• Integration with Active Directory
• Advanced Settings

• Overview
• Encryption
• RBAC and Authtication
• Data Compliance Users and Roles
• Discuss DataLock Feature
• Cloning a View as a DataLock View
• Editing Compliance Settings

• View Mount Issues
• Access View Issues
• View Permissions Issues
• Cohesity Resource Links & Support
• Cohesity API Reference