CCPA-DataProtect Exam Information and Outline
Cohesity Certified Protection Associate - DataProtect
CCPA-DataProtect Exam Syllabus & Study Guide
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Exam Code: COH100
Exam Name: Cohesity Protection Associate - DataProtect
Credential: Cohesity Certified Protection Associate - DataProtect
Prerequisite Exams or Certifications: None
Exam Duration: 90 minutes
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
- Identify Cohesity SmartFiles use cases
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