The VAST Certified Administrator credential validates that you can run and optimize a production VAST Data Platform at scale. Certified Administrators keep commissioned environments healthy and performant — monitoring latency and IOPS, managing alerts and audits, applying multi-tenancy and QoS governance, restricting IP ranges, validating software upgrades, and maintaining CNode/DNode health across file, object, and block workloads. Designed for storage and systems administrators, infrastructure engineers, and data center operations professionals who own the day-to-day of a VAST deployment.