Exhibit 24

Limited Power of Attorney for Section 16 Reporting Obligations

With respect to holdings of and transactions in securities issued by Cognizant
Technology Solutions Corporation (the "Company"), the undersigned hereby
constitutes and appoints the individuals named on Schedule A attached hereto and
as may be amended from time to time, or any of them signing singly, with full
power of substitution and resubstitution, to act as the undersigned's true and
lawful attorney-in-fact to:

1.	prepare, execute in the undersigned's name and on the undersigned's behalf,
and submit to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") a
Form ID, including amendments thereto, and any other documents necessary or
appropriate to obtain and/or regenerate codes and passwords enabling the
undersigned to make electronic filings with the SEC of reports required by
Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or any rule or
regulation of the SEC;

2.	execute for and on behalf of the undersigned Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance
with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the
rules thereunder;

3.	do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which
may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5,
complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such
form with the SEC and any stock exchange or similar authority; and

4.	take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing
which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the
best interest of, or legally required by the undersigned, it being understood
that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the
undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall
contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such
attorney-in-fact's discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and
authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers
herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or
could do if personally present, with full power of substitution and
resubstitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such
attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall
lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the
rights and powers herein granted.

The undersigned acknowledges that the attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such
capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company
assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the
undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by Cognizant
Technology Solutions Corporation, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a
signed writing delivered to the attorneys-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of this 3rd day of March, 2020.

/s/ Archana Deskus

Schedule A

Individuals Appointed as Attorney-in-Fact with Full Power of Substitution and
Resubstitution:

1.  Karen McLoughlin, Chief Financial Officer
2.  Matthew Friedrich, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Chief
Corporate Affairs Officer and Corporate Secretary
3.  Harry Demas, Deputy General Counsel, Corporate, Securities & M&A
4.  Heather Lawson, Senior Counsel, Corporate and Securities