Practice Test for Data Protection
Associate Cohesity Certification Exam
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Section 1: Platform Fundamentals
Q1. What is the primary function of the SpanFS component in the
Cohesity platform?
A) Managing network traffic between nodes
B) Distributed file system for data storage with global deduplication
C) Scheduling and managing backup jobs
D) User authentication and credential storage
Answer: B
Rationale: SpanFS is Cohesity's proprietary distributed file system that spans
all nodes in the cluster, enabling global deduplication, scalability, and
efficient data management.
Q2. Which Cohesity platform provides unified management and
analytics across multiple clusters?
A) Iris
B) DataLock
,C) Helios
D) SnapTree
Answer: C
Rationale: Cohesity Helios provides a single interface for managing multiple
Cohesity clusters, offering advanced analytics, monitoring, and global policy
enforcement across distributed environments.
Q3. Which two cloud providers are available for Cohesity Cloud Edition
to support backup and recovery of virtual machines? (Choose two)
A) AWS
B) Iron Mountain
C) Alibaba
D) Azure
Answer: A and D
Rationale: Cohesity Cloud Edition natively supports AWS and Azure for
backup and recovery of virtual machines.
Section 2: Data Protection Fundamentals
Q4. Which statement is true about the recovery of VMware virtual
machines in Cohesity?
A) You can recover a VM only to the original location
B) You can recover a VM to an alternate location
C) You cannot recover with the VM powered off
D) You can recover VMs only to registered ESXi servers
,Answer: B
Rationale: Cohesity supports recovering VMware VMs to alternate locations,
with options to leave recovered VMs powered off to avoid impacting
production services.
Q5. After installing the Cohesity Agent, which step is necessary to back
up databases using a Microsoft SQL Server Protection Group?
A) Register the SQL Server as a Microsoft SQL Server source
B) Create a Cohesity View
C) Configure the agent to perform backups
D) Assign sysadmin privileges to the Cohesity user
Answer: A
Rationale: After agent installation, the SQL Server must be registered as a
Microsoft SQL Server source in the Cohesity UI before it can be protected.
Q6. Which method would you use to ensure an application-consistent
backup for an unsupported application running on a Linux VM?
A) Configure a Virtual Machine Protection Group with the "App-Consistent"
option selected
B) Install the Cohesity Agent on the VM and protect it using the block-
based method as a Physical Server
C) Configure a Virtual Machine Protection Group with "Leverage Storage
Snapshots" feature
D) Use crash-consistent backups only for unsupported applications
Answer: B
Rationale: For unsupported applications, installing the Cohesity Agent and
, protecting the VM as a physical server using block-based method enables
application-consistent backups.
Section 3: Protection Concepts
Q7. Which three NAS Sources can be registered and protected natively
by Cohesity? (Choose three)
A) NetApp ONTAP
B) Isilon OneFS
C) Hitachi NAS Platform (HNAS)
D) Pure FlashBlade
Answer: A, B, and C
Rationale: Cohesity natively supports NetApp ONTAP, Isilon OneFS, and
Hitachi NAS Platform (HNAS) as NAS sources for protection.
Q8. In the Cohesity GUI, which Policy configuration option is related to
bare-metal physical server recovery?
A) Extended Retention
B) Log Backup
C) Archive
D) BMR Backup
Answer: D
Rationale: BMR (Bare-Metal Recovery) Backup is the policy configuration
option specifically related to physical server recovery.
Associate Cohesity Certification Exam
Latest / Cohesity Data Protection
Associate Newest Practice Exam (MOST
RECENT) GRADED A+
Section 1: Platform Fundamentals
Q1. What is the primary function of the SpanFS component in the
Cohesity platform?
A) Managing network traffic between nodes
B) Distributed file system for data storage with global deduplication
C) Scheduling and managing backup jobs
D) User authentication and credential storage
Answer: B
Rationale: SpanFS is Cohesity's proprietary distributed file system that spans
all nodes in the cluster, enabling global deduplication, scalability, and
efficient data management.
Q2. Which Cohesity platform provides unified management and
analytics across multiple clusters?
A) Iris
B) DataLock
,C) Helios
D) SnapTree
Answer: C
Rationale: Cohesity Helios provides a single interface for managing multiple
Cohesity clusters, offering advanced analytics, monitoring, and global policy
enforcement across distributed environments.
Q3. Which two cloud providers are available for Cohesity Cloud Edition
to support backup and recovery of virtual machines? (Choose two)
A) AWS
B) Iron Mountain
C) Alibaba
D) Azure
Answer: A and D
Rationale: Cohesity Cloud Edition natively supports AWS and Azure for
backup and recovery of virtual machines.
Section 2: Data Protection Fundamentals
Q4. Which statement is true about the recovery of VMware virtual
machines in Cohesity?
A) You can recover a VM only to the original location
B) You can recover a VM to an alternate location
C) You cannot recover with the VM powered off
D) You can recover VMs only to registered ESXi servers
,Answer: B
Rationale: Cohesity supports recovering VMware VMs to alternate locations,
with options to leave recovered VMs powered off to avoid impacting
production services.
Q5. After installing the Cohesity Agent, which step is necessary to back
up databases using a Microsoft SQL Server Protection Group?
A) Register the SQL Server as a Microsoft SQL Server source
B) Create a Cohesity View
C) Configure the agent to perform backups
D) Assign sysadmin privileges to the Cohesity user
Answer: A
Rationale: After agent installation, the SQL Server must be registered as a
Microsoft SQL Server source in the Cohesity UI before it can be protected.
Q6. Which method would you use to ensure an application-consistent
backup for an unsupported application running on a Linux VM?
A) Configure a Virtual Machine Protection Group with the "App-Consistent"
option selected
B) Install the Cohesity Agent on the VM and protect it using the block-
based method as a Physical Server
C) Configure a Virtual Machine Protection Group with "Leverage Storage
Snapshots" feature
D) Use crash-consistent backups only for unsupported applications
Answer: B
Rationale: For unsupported applications, installing the Cohesity Agent and
, protecting the VM as a physical server using block-based method enables
application-consistent backups.
Section 3: Protection Concepts
Q7. Which three NAS Sources can be registered and protected natively
by Cohesity? (Choose three)
A) NetApp ONTAP
B) Isilon OneFS
C) Hitachi NAS Platform (HNAS)
D) Pure FlashBlade
Answer: A, B, and C
Rationale: Cohesity natively supports NetApp ONTAP, Isilon OneFS, and
Hitachi NAS Platform (HNAS) as NAS sources for protection.
Q8. In the Cohesity GUI, which Policy configuration option is related to
bare-metal physical server recovery?
A) Extended Retention
B) Log Backup
C) Archive
D) BMR Backup
Answer: D
Rationale: BMR (Bare-Metal Recovery) Backup is the policy configuration
option specifically related to physical server recovery.
