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Cohesity Academy
Cohesity Academy delivers world-class resources and best practices for Cohesity Solutions including the
adoption of multicloud data management. Expertly designed coursework and training materials give you
and other technical professionals knowledge and skills that put you on a fast path to achieving businessoutcomes and earning valuable certifications.

Haley Heter

Senior Director, Cohesity Academy

My favorite quote is by Henry David Thoreau. “Go confidently in the directionof your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.”
We established Cohesity Academy to help you with career advancement and I
hope you take advantage of the courses and earn valuable credentials!
Dream big.

Contents
Accelerate Your Career with Cohesity Academy............................................................................................................................... 3
Courses & Certifications Overview........................................................................................................................................... 3
How Cohesity Academy Delivers Training............................................................................................................................... 3
Getting Started Technical Series Courses.............................................................................................................................. 4
Courses............................................................................................................................................................................................ 5
Certifications.................................................................................................................................................................................. 8
Associate Level Certifications.................................................................................................................................................... 9Professional Level Certifications..............................................................................................................................................10
General & Certification FAQs.......................................................................................................................................................11
Badges & Social Media................................................................................................................................................................. 13
Course Registration..................................................................................................................................................................... 14
Instructor Led Training Options................................................................................................................................................14
Contact Information..................................................................................................................................................................... 14

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Accelerate Your Career with Cohesity Academy.
Choose role-specific courses, build your expertise and boost your resume.

Courses & Certifications Overview
Courses and certifications will help you advance your career. Here’s the difference.

Courses

Courses will help you learn, grow, and build your skills. .

Certifications

Cohesity certifications will authenticate and validate your skills. These are proctored
exams given by professionals. Three to six months of practical experience in thetargeted field is recommended.

How Cohesity Academy Delivers Training

Self-paced Interactive
eCourses
Start your data
management learningjourney wherever you are,whenever you have time.
Complete multimedia
learning modules tosuccessfully set you up
to get the most from your
Cohesity investment.

Virtual Instructor-led
Training

Instructor-led Training
at Cohesity Offices

Dedicated Onsite
Instructor-led Training

Engage with our experts
Select one of our on-site
and your peers in othersessions and learn fromindustries during interactive
our experts as you andlearning sessions withyour peers focus on thehands-on labs andskills, labs and knowledge
exercises that improveyour organizations need
your data management
to be successful with data
strategies and optimize
management and Cohesity.
your use of Cohesity.

Maximize your enterprise’s
investment with all-in,
private and hands-on data
management educationfrom our experts where you
choose, delivered to yourwhole team.

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Getting Started Technical Series Courses
The Cohesity Getting Started Technical Series offers on-demand eCourses that provide a comprehensive introduction
to specific topics. Each course covers solutions specific to various technical roles. As a commitment to our customers’continual learning and development, these courses are offered free of charge.

CourseCohesity DataProtect Delivered as a Service

Duration

Delivery

Registration

45 minutes

eCourseRegister HereThe Cohesity DataProtect course focuses on the initial setup process for Cohesity DataProtect as a Service.
Students will learn how to register, protect and recover various workloads. Software simulations as well as
video demonstrations are included to help visualize and practice the concepts.

Cohesity FortKnox - Getting Started

1 houreCourseRegister HereThe Cohesity FortKnox Getting Started course introduces Cohesity Cloud Services, initial configurations
and usage, hands-on exercises, and essential skills in data management and protection. Upon completion,
students will be able to plan, configure, secure, and monitor Cohesity FortKnox for effective data asset
protection.

Cohesity Threat Detection - Getting Started

1 houreCourseRegister Here

Learn how to implement and use the Cohesity AI/ML-driven threat detection capabilities to secure your data
against malicious attacks.

Cohesity Data Classification - Getting Started

1 houreCourseRegister Here

Learn how to implement and use Cohesity data classification to discover and classify sensitive data in theevent of attack to understand if sensitive data was potentially compromised.

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Courses
The Cohesity Academy courses offer hands-on learning opportunities to develop skills across the Cohesity platform.
Our structured curriculum comprises of nine courses, starting with Platform Foundations.

CoursePlatform Foundations

Audience

Pre-requisite to all
Cohesity courses

Duration

Delivery

Full Information

Course Datasheet

2 hours

eCourseRegister Here

This course focuses on both customer and partner-managed Cohesity environments. You will be introduced
to the Cohesity Platform, it’s components, and core services, as well as the file system, primary configuration
options and management operations in the Cohesity user interface.

Data Protection Operations••

Backup Operators
Backup Admins

Course Datasheet

1 day

ILT
Register HereThe Data Protection Operations training course teaches common Cohesity DataProtect workflows and canbe tailored to address desired customer use cases. You will be introduced to new data protection concepts
realized with Cohesity’s revolutionary platform..

Platform Administration•••

Cohesity Admins
System Admins
Backup Admins

Course Datasheet

1 day

ILT
Register HereThe Cohesity Platform Administration course focuses on teaching Cohesity administrators topics regarding
use cases, features, and operational workflows. It is structured to be flexible to match use-cases a customer
may encounter.

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Courses
The collection of the Cohesity Academy courses on this page focuses on administration and cyber resilience Theyequip professionals with skills to administer and safeguard their data effectively.

CourseData Security Administration

Audience
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Security Engineers
Sales Engineers
Data Protection
Engineers
PS Engineers
Storage Admins
Data Architects

Duration

Delivery

Registration

Course Datasheet

1 day

ILT
Register HereThe Cohesity Data Security Administration course focuses on teaching students how to enhance cyber
resiliency and stay one step ahead of the cyber-criminals by utilizing Cohesity’s threat defense architecture tosecure their Cohesity environment and their data.

Cyber Resilience
Foundations

Essential for anyone
looking to enhancetheir cybersecurity
expertise and ensure
their organization isprepared to handle theever-evolving landscapeof cyber threats.

3 hours

eCourseRegister HereThe Cohesity Cyber Resilience Foundations eCourse is designed to provide a deep understanding of
Cohesity’s security capabilities and how they can help your organization defend against cyber-attacks andrecover with minimal disruption if an attack occurs.

SmartFiles Administration

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NAS Admins
System Admins
Storage Admins
Cohesity Admins

2 daysILT

Course Datasheet
Register HereThe SmartFiles Administration teaches IT professionals how to best utilize Cohesity SmartFiles to store,protect, and search their data. Students will learn how common workflows and can be tailored to address use
cases. After an overview of the Cohesity platform interface and its features, they will be introduced to newconcepts realized with Cohesity’s revolutionary platform

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Courses
Cohesity Academy offers comprehensive training courses tailored for effectively troubleshooting issues and databaseprotection. This includes Platform Troubleshooting and two distinct courses designed to enhance your MS SQL and
Oracle data protection skills.

CoursePlatform Troubleshooting

Audience

Duration

Delivery

Cohesity experienced
IT professionals
responsible for operating
and supporting theCohesity Platform.

1 day

ILT

Registration

Course Datasheet
Register HereThe Cohesity Platform Troubleshooting course teaches Cohesity experienced operations and support IT staff
how to triage, troubleshooting and resolve issues related to the Cohesity Data Cloud Platform. This course
teaches students how to troubleshoot and maintain the Cohesity Data Cloud platform using native utilities andadditional specialized tools.

Cohesity DataProtect for
Oracle Database
Administrators••

Database Admins
Backup Admins

1 day

ILT

Course Datasheet
Register HereThe Cohesity Data Protection for Oracle Database Administrators course focuses on teaching backup
and database administrators how to best utilize the Cohesity DataProtect service to protect their Oracle
databases. This course covers an overview of the Cohesity platform interface and its features. Additionally,
students will learn about various Oracle data protection workflows that the Cohesity DataProtect service
supports.

•
Cohesity DataProtect for
SQL Database Administrators •Course Datasheet

Database Admins
Backup Admins

1 day

ILT

Register HereThe Cohesity Data Protection for Microsoft SQL Database Administrators course focuses on teaching backup
and database administrators how to best utilize the Cohesity DataProtect solution to protect their SQL
databases. This course covers an overview of the Cohesity platform interface and its features. Additionally,
students will learn about various Microsoft SQL data protection workflows that the Cohesity DataProtect
service supports.

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Certifications
Cohesity certifications enable technical professionals todemonstrate their current Cohesity data management
skills and mastery of increasingly difficult concepts andtasks that arise in real-world environments.

•••

Three to six months of experience recommended withthe respective certification field.
Exams are proctored, cost $150 and last for 90
minutes.
Certifications are valid for two years from the examdate.

Data Management
Associate Track

Data Management
Professional Track

Full Information

Full Information

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Associate Level Certifications
Associate is a recommended foundational-level certification on the journey to being a Cohesity Certified DataManagement Professional. Complete the below certifications and receive your Cohesity Data Management Associate
Certification, proving you have the capability to help any organization advance their data goals.

Data Protection Associate Certification
Designed for individuals who want to demonstrate that they have mastered a modern scale-out, software
defined solution to protect data from on-premises to the edge and the cloud.
Exam data sheet here.

1

Platform
Foundations

2

Data Protection
Operations

3

Professional
Experience

4

Practice
Test

5

Certification
Exam

File and Object Services Associate Certification
Designed for individuals who want to build, test and assess their skills with software defined file andobject services to better manage unstructured data, at scale, anywhere.
Exam data sheet here.
1

Platform
Foundations

2

Data Protection
Operations

3

Platform
Administration

4

SmartFiles
Administration

5

Professional
Experience

6

Practice
Test & Cert ExamMulticloud Solutions Associate Certification
Multicloud certification assesses a deeper level of expertise and proves you understand how to simplify
and automate data management use cases, such as archiving, tiering, and replicating across multicloudenvironments.
Exam data sheet here
1

Platform
Foundations

2

SmartFiles
Administration

3

Data Security
Administration

4

Professional
Experience

5

Practice
Test

6

Certification
Exam

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Professional Level Certifications
Unlock the next level of your career with professional level certifications. After completing the associate level
certifications, advance to the tier 2 of professional data management exams. Each certification is aligned to a specificarea of our data management platform.

Data Security Professional Certification
Data Security Professional certification focuses on ensuring individuals are knowledgeable in how tosuccessfully use and deploy Cohesity threat defense architecture solutions. Once completed, students
will be able to demonstrate the ability to identify potential security risks and know how to mitigate them.
Exam data sheet here

1

Platform
Foundations

2

Data Protection
Operations

3

Data Security
Administration

4

Professional
Experience

5

Practice
Test

6

Certification
Exam

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General & Certification FAQs
1.

How can I get a Cohesity account created?
Sign up here for a My Cohesity account.

2. As a customer, how can I find courses?
Using your credentials login to your My Cohesity account, and navigate to Cohesity Academy for available learning
opportunities.

3. How are certification exams administered?
Certifications are delivered and proctored through a third-party organization.

4. Is there training for the certification exam? How do I prepare?
We do not require coursework prior to taking an exam, but we do have courses to support you as you learn and we
also recommend six (6) months on-the-job experience. To supplement your knowledge, Cohesity provides optional
training courses, a study guide, and a practice exam to help you prepare for each certification exam. Partners accessthe Partner Portal for these resources.

5. When does Cohesity certification expire?
Cohesity certification expires two (2) years from the date you pass your exam.

6. When will I get my exam results?
Preliminary results are provided immediately after the exam.

7. Can I retake my exam if I fail?
Yes, you may retake the exam after 14 days.

8. How can I get my certificate of completion?
The certificate of completion will be issued and available in your Cohesity Academy account within three weeks after
passing. Once the certificates are available, you will need to log in to your My Cohesity account and access Cohesity
Academy.

9. How do I contact the 3rd party exam company?
Equipment Requirements: Link here
Real-Time Chat: Link here
Ticket support (for non-urgent matters): Link here
Phone: 1-855-772-8678

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10. How do I find my transcript?
To find your transcript, click on the User Menu (hamburger icon in the top left corner) and scroll down to My
Activities. Click on Courses or Learning Plans to see your training completions and status of courses.

11. How do I download my completion of course attendance certificate?
There are two options:a. Go to My Courses and Learning Plans and click on the course title of a completed course.
Then, click on the “Download Your Certificate” button in the upper right corner.
b. Alternatively, click on the User Menu (hamburger icon in the top left corner) and scroll down to My Activities.
Click on Courses or Learning Plans to see your training completions.
You will see an award icon to the far right of the course title.
		
Click on the award icon to download a copy of your certificate.

12. How do I change my email address?
Please email support@cohesity.com and include first name, last name with the email addresses you are changing
from and to. This will create a ticket for a team member to help assist.

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Badges & Social MediaAt Cohesity, our dedication lies in equipping you with the necessary tools to accomplish your professional aspirations.
Equally significant, we offer avenues for you to effectively convey your hard-earned credentials on social media. Our
credentials include accreditations, certifications and end of course badges.
Our badges incorporate analytics to show a progression path and advancing knowledge and skills of data management,
providing insight to others into how our program and learner is performing, and through our collaboration with Credly,
we present you digital versions of your credentials. These Cohesity digital badges serve as a means to showcase yourexpertise, abilities, and accomplishments to the global community.

How it works
1. Receive an email from Credly within one day of passing an exam
2. Claim your badge
3. Start sharing! Add your badge to LinkedIn, your email signature, blogs and more.

Badge FAQs
1.

What is an open badge?
Open badges are web-enabled versions of a credential, certification, or learning outcome that can be verified online
in real time.

2. How does my certification get displayed as a badge?
Each certification badge is issued and managed through Credly, which is based on the Open Badge Standards
maintained by IMS Global. You can manage, share, and verify your competencies digitally through Credly.
3. How will I know if I’ve earned a badge?
You will receive an email notification from Credly with instructions for setting up your account and claiming yourbadge.
4. What if I don’t want my badge to be public?
You can configure your privacy settings in Credly. You’re in complete control of the information about yourself that is
made public.
5. What prevents others from copying my badge and using it?
Badges are data image files that are uniquely identified to data hosted by Credly. The link to the verified data makes
them more reliable and secure than a paper-based certificate. It also eliminates the possibility of anyone claiming
your credential and your associated identity.
6. Where and how can I share my badge through Credly?
Share your badge directly from Credly on LinkedIn, and other social media platforms. You can use it in email, on a
website, and in your email signature.
7.

Can I export badges issued through Credly to other badge-storing platforms?
Yes. You can download your badge from the Credly “Share Badge” page. Your downloaded badge contains Open
Badge Infrastructure (OBI) metadata. This allows you to store your badge on the other OBI-compliant badge sites,such as the Mozilla backpack.

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Course Registration
1.

Identify your training needs with your Cohesity sales representative.

2. Your representative will work with the Academy team to determine the most appropriate course.
3. Your Cohesity Sales Representative will create a quote for the training, and you can complete the transaction
through your preferred business partner.
4. After the transaction is completed, you can start by creating a My Cohesity account and then navigate to Cohesity
Academy.
5. Once you’ve arrived at our learning management system, you can start by taking our free e-course, Cohesity
Platform Foundations (pre-requisite to all Cohesity courses) and from there, you can explore which course(s) you’d
like to take next.
6. After purchasing a dedicated private Instructor led classes (buy out) get started by filling out this form forappropriate day and time.

Instructor Led Training Options
Cohesity Academy caters to different learning preferences and schedules, ensuring a comprehensive educational
experience for all students. All instructor led courses are fee-based. Work with your sales team on cost.

All Access Pass

Up to 12 courses

1 Student

Virtual ILT & eCourses

Individual Seats

1 Day

1 Student

ILT

Dedicated Instructor Led Training

1 Day

1-12 Student

ILT Virtual

Dedicated Instructor Led Training

2 - 5 Days

1-12 Student

ILT Virtual or Onsite

Contact Information
For more information on Cohesity Academy options, please contact your Cohesity representative or email
academy@cohesity.com

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