01. Ahead of a quarterly capacity review, an infrastructure manager asks for two figures: how much physical capacity the cluster is consuming, and how much reduction has been achieved against the data written to it.
Which monitoring surface provides both?
a) The performance dashboard, which reports storage consumption and the reduction achieved
b) The report of data transferred to external targets, which totals what the cluster sent to archive
c) The SLA indicator, which shows whether each group is meeting the expectation set in its policy
d) The most recent run state for each Protection Group, which records what was written and how long it took
02. The storage team's weekly meeting has no standing view of backup task health, so operators arrive with whatever they happened to notice. The administrator offers to bring a report instead.
Which two questions can that report answer that the state of a single Protection Group run cannot?
(Choose two.)
a) Which groups across the cluster have missed their SLA most often in the period
b) How many times a given Protection Group has failed over the past month
c) Which retention setting the group's Protection Policy applies to its snapshots
d) Whether the object being protected in tonight's run has finished or is still in flight
03. Users on a finance team say that opening documents from their share feels sluggish in the evening, although the volume of data written each night has not changed.
Which measurement on the performance dashboard describes what those users are experiencing?
a) Latency: the time taken to service a read or write
b) Storage reduction: the ratio of logical data to the physical capacity it occupies
c) IOPS: read and write operations per second
d) Throughput: the volume of data moved per second
04. In a Protection Policy, the archival action writes its copies to an External Target.
Which statement correctly describes what an External Target is?
a) A second Cohesity cluster registered as the destination of the policy's replication action.
b) A View published for object access so external applications can read or write archived copies.
c) A Storage Domain created for long-term copies, with its own deduplication and resiliency properties.
d) Storage outside the cluster, such as cloud object storage or a NAS target, that is registered on the cluster and selected by an archival action.
05. Before the working day begins, a backup administrator reviews the states reported by last night's Protection Group runs across a logistics company's virtual estate.
Which three findings call for the administrator to investigate or intervene before the next scheduled run?
(Choose three.)
a) A run still reported as running inside the group's open backup window
b) A run cancelled by an operator part way through, leaving several objects unprotected
c) A run reported as succeeded with warnings, with two of its objects not protected
d) A run reported as failed, with none of the group's objects protected
06. A pharmaceutical company must move an inactive research dataset off local cluster capacity under a seven-year retention mandate, and expects to need part of it back when an audit is scheduled.
Which three statements about the services involved are correct?
(Choose three.)
a) CloudArchive creates the retained copy of the dataset on a cloud External Target.
b) CloudSpin can present the archived dataset as a running cloud instance read directly from the External Target.
c) CloudRetrieve is the service that brings that archived data back to a cluster for the audit.
d) CloudTier alone would not satisfy the mandate, because tiering relocates cold data rather than creating a retained copy.
07. On a Cohesity cluster, which construct is presented to users and applications as a file or object share that the cluster itself serves?
a) An External Target, which holds copies written outside the cluster
b) A Protection Group, which selects the objects a policy protects
c) A Storage Domain, which sets the deduplication and encryption properties data is written with
d) A View, the file and object namespace behind SmartFiles
08. Two Cohesity clusters at different sites are being prepared to exchange copies of protected data.
Which two conditions must be met before replicated copies can flow?
(Choose two.)
a) The protected data must first be archived to an External Target that both clusters can read.
b) A replication relationship must be established between the two clusters.
c) A Protection Policy must carry a replication action naming the remote cluster and a retention for the remote copy.
d) Each protected object must be registered as a source on the remote cluster and added to a Protection Group there.
09. Each of the Cohesity cloud services performs a different job.
Which two statements correctly pair a service with what it does?
(Choose two.)
a) CloudArchive writes a copy of backup data to a cloud External Target for long-term retention.
b) CloudRetrieve brings data previously archived to the cloud back onto a Cohesity cluster.
c) CloudSpin moves cold data off local cluster capacity into cloud object storage.
d) CloudTier converts a protected virtual machine into an instance that runs in a public cloud.
10. During a handover walkthrough, a colleague asks how Instant Recovery returns a virtual machine to service so quickly.
Which description is accurate?
a) The most recent recovery point is converted into a cloud instance and started there.
b) Only the files that changed since the last backup are written into the running guest.
c) The virtual machine's disks are copied back to the primary datastore before it powers on.
d) The virtual machine runs directly from the Cohesity cluster's storage.