COH-350 Exam Information and Outline
Cohesity Certified Security Specialist (COH350)
COH-350 Exam Syllabus & Study Guide
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Exam Code: COH350 - CCSS-Security
Exam Name: Cohesity Certified Security Specialist
Number of Questions: 60
Exam Duration: 90 minutes
Passing Score: 60%
– Network Security
- Demonstrate knowledge of how to control network protocol access
- Describe Cohesity best practices to secure inflight backup data
– System Hardening
- Describe Write Once- Read Many (WORM) storage technology
- Describe Cohesity encryption capabilities
- Demonstrate knowledge of how to reduce the attack surface
- Demonstrate knowledge of how to secure underlying system access
– Security Assessment
- Describe compliance- legal holds and data retention capabilities
- Describe how Cohesity features can protect against attacks
- Describe Zero Trust platform design
- Describe scenarios where third-party solutions are relevant to a secure Cohesity design
- Assess Clean Room Requirements
– User and Access Management
- Describe the options available for multi-factor authentication
- Describe how to configure single sign-on (SSO)
- Describe how to configure or manage role-based access control (RBAC)
- Demonstrate knowledge of Active Directory user authentication best practices
- Demonstrate knowledge of how to configure multitenancy security
- Demonstrate knowledge of how Quorum groups can restrict privileged actions
– Periodic Monitoring- Alerting and Auditing
- Describe Cohesity audit logging capabilities
- Describe the benefits of using remote syslog servers
- Demonstrate knowledge of how to implement monitoring for ransomware or data breaches
- Describe alert notifications on a Cohesity cluster
– Incident Response and Remediation
- Demonstrate knowledge of how to recover from an incident
- Demonstrate knowledge of using a Clean Room to respond to a cyber event
– Secure Data Management
- Demonstrate knowledge of data isolation methods