Item 5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation (the "Company") held its annual meeting of shareholders (the "Annual Meeting") on Tuesday, June 2, 2020. At the close of business on April 6, 2020, the record date for the determination of shareholders entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting (the "Record Date"), there were 541,055,494 shares of the Company's Class A Common Stock outstanding and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting. A total of 485,105,402 shares of Class A Common Stock were present or represented by proxy at the Annual Meeting, representing approximately 89.7% of the Company's outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock as of the Record Date.

The following are the voting results on the four proposals considered and voted upon at the Annual Meeting, all of which were described in the Company's Definitive Proxy Statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 22, 2020.

At the Annual Meeting, all of the directors were re-elected, Proposals 2 and 3 were approved and Proposal 4 was not approved.

Proposal 1. Election of Directors

The vote with respect to the election of directors was as follows:



                                                                               Broker
                                For            Against         Abstain       Non-Votes
       Zein Abdalla         449,084,482       4,005,663        223,888       31,791,369
       Vinita Bali          418,530,245       34,592,135       191,653       31,791,369
 Maureen Breakiron-Evans    442,783,291       10,323,511       207,231       31,791,369
      Archana Deskus        443,885,400       9,223,212        205,421       31,791,369
      John M. Dineen        452,380,642        681,554         251,837       31,791,369
     John N. Fox, Jr.       425,650,243       27,465,830       197,960       31,791,369
     Brian Humphries        452,806,943        327,918         179,172       31,791,369
    Leo S. Mackay, Jr.      446,270,686       6,839,473        203,874       31,791,369
   Michael Patsalos-Fox     443,357,507       9,754,016        202,510       31,791,369
     Joseph M. Velli        446,752,580       6,357,184        204,269       31,791,369
    Sandra S. Wijnberg      440,628,466       12,478,716       206,851       31,791,369

Proposal 2. Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation (Say-on-Pay)



The advisory vote on the compensation of the Company's named executive officers
was as follows:

     For            Against         Abstain        Broker Non-Votes
 409,636,688       43,045,967       631,378           31,791,369

Proposal 3. Ratification of Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The vote with respect to the ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2020 was as follows:



     For            Against         Abstain        Broker Non-Votes
 457,464,541       27,439,349       201,512               -

Proposal 4. Shareholder Proposal Regarding Shareholder Action by Written Consent

The vote with respect to the shareholder proposal requesting that the board of directors take action as necessary to permit shareholder action by written consent was as follows:



     For             Against         Abstain        Broker Non-Votes
  77,487,523       374,525,089      1,301,421          31,791,369

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