Question

Point out the wrong statement.

(a) To backup a given database, you must have read access on the database

(b) The backup role confers no additional access, in keeping with the policy of least privilege

(c) mongodumplocal overwrites output files if they exist in the backup data folder

(d) All of the mentioned

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Answer 1

Right option is (c) mongodumplocal overwrites output files if they exist in the backup data folder

For explanation I would say: To backup the system.profile collection, which is created when you activate database profiling, you must have additional read access on this collection.