Cohesity COH500 - Cohesity Certified Architect Expert (CCAE) Exam
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Total 60 questions
Question #11 (Topic: Exam A)
A global pharmaceutical company operates two active data centers with the following requirements:
mission-critical Oracle RAC and SQL Always-On clusters
hundreds of VMware and Hyper-V VMs
petabytes of NAS shares and media content
compliance with immutability, air-gapping, and WORM (SEC/GxP compliance)
RTO: 2 hours, RPO: 15 minutes for Tier-1 workloads
seven plus years media retention with full auditability
zero impact to production and non-disruptive DR testing quarterly
requirement for centralized management and policy-driven automation
In this situation, which three design strategies should you include in your Cohesity deployment architecture? (Choose three.)
mission-critical Oracle RAC and SQL Always-On clusters
hundreds of VMware and Hyper-V VMs
petabytes of NAS shares and media content
compliance with immutability, air-gapping, and WORM (SEC/GxP compliance)
RTO: 2 hours, RPO: 15 minutes for Tier-1 workloads
seven plus years media retention with full auditability
zero impact to production and non-disruptive DR testing quarterly
requirement for centralized management and policy-driven automation
In this situation, which three design strategies should you include in your Cohesity deployment architecture? (Choose three.)
A. rely on crash-consistent VM backups and enable global deduplication only at the source
B. enable DataLock and SmartFiles for long-term media archival with compliance retention
C. use a single Cohesity cluster at one site and configure periodic cloud-native snapshots for DR
D. deploy Cohesity clusters in both data centers with replication and a cloud DR tier
E. use Cohesity immutable snapshots with DataLock and Legal Hold for critical workloads
Answer: BDE
Question #12 (Topic: Exam A)
Review the exhibit.
Depending on the production network environment, the Data Cloud networking deployment procedures might vary.
Referring to the exhibit, what is the correct configuration in case of P5?
Depending on the production network environment, the Data Cloud networking deployment procedures might vary.
Referring to the exhibit, what is the correct configuration in case of P5?
A. The primary and secondary networks are configured on a native VLAN.
B. The primary network is configured on a native VLAN.
C. The primary network is configured on a non-native VLAN.
D. The primary and secondary network are configured on a non-native VLAN.
Answer: D
Question #13 (Topic: Exam A)
You are deploying a Cohesity cluster in a customer's data center. The cluster will back up virtual machines and replicate data to a remote site. You want to ensure optimal performance and reliability.
Which network configuration supports this deployment?
Which network configuration supports this deployment?
A. disable jumbo frames to reduce network complexity and increase compatibility
B. use NAT for all internal Cohesity node communication to enhance security
C. configure separate VLANs for management, backup data traffic and replication to isolate workloads and optimize bandwidth
D. use a single VLAN for management, backup traffic, and replication to simplify configuration
Answer: C
Question #14 (Topic: Exam A)
A customer plans to protect a diverse set of workloads:
180 TiB of virtual machines (daily backups)
40 TiB of NAS data (weekly backups)
60 TiB of SQL Server databases (twice-daily backups with a 25% daily change rate)
They require 90 days of retention across all workloads.
Which factor has a significant impact on determining the required capacity of the Cohesity cluster?
180 TiB of virtual machines (daily backups)
40 TiB of NAS data (weekly backups)
60 TiB of SQL Server databases (twice-daily backups with a 25% daily change rate)
They require 90 days of retention across all workloads.
Which factor has a significant impact on determining the required capacity of the Cohesity cluster?
A. the total number of virtual machines in the environment and their memory footprint
B. the type of data stored in NAS shares and whether it is structured or unstructured
C. the number of simultaneous backup jobs running on the cluster and job concurrency limits
D. the backup frequency and change rate of the SQL Server data
Answer: D
Question #15 (Topic: Exam A)
A legal services provider is migrating from a legacy backup solution to Cohesity. Their workloads include:
multiple NAS shares with 250 TiB of unstructured file data
a mix of Windows and Linux file servers used for legal discovery and compliance archiving
the existing backup system reports no deduplication or compression savings
backup jobs run weekly with a daily change rate estimated at 8%
retention is set to 180 days
the customer has requested third-party nodes and minimal rehydration overhead during restores
However, detailed reporting from their legacy solution is limited, and actual growth rates are unclear. You are asked to build a sizing proposal that ensures resiliency, future growth, and restore performance.
What is an appropriate sizing strategy for this deployment?
multiple NAS shares with 250 TiB of unstructured file data
a mix of Windows and Linux file servers used for legal discovery and compliance archiving
the existing backup system reports no deduplication or compression savings
backup jobs run weekly with a daily change rate estimated at 8%
retention is set to 180 days
the customer has requested third-party nodes and minimal rehydration overhead during restores
However, detailed reporting from their legacy solution is limited, and actual growth rates are unclear. You are asked to build a sizing proposal that ensures resiliency, future growth, and restore performance.
What is an appropriate sizing strategy for this deployment?
A. apply industry-average deduplication and compression ratios of 3:1 to reduce required capacity and include SmartFiles to offload legal archives into a separate view
B. size based on full source size plus 180 days of change data using the 8% daily change rate, add a 25-30% headroom buffer, and select third-party nodes using Cohesity OEM sizing guidance for unstructured ingest workloads
C. use 250 TiB as the total sizing baseline, assuming weekly full backups with dedupe will result in significant storage efficiency even without verified metrics
D. focus sizing on restore concurrency and use the smallest third-party node model available, assuming archive workloads will have minimal restore impact
Answer: B
