Question

Point out the wrong statement.

(a) When granted a role, a user receives all the privileges of that role

(b) A role consists of privileges that pair resources with not allowed operations

(c) User cannot have several roles in MongoDB

(d) None of the mentioned

The question was asked in an internship interview.

The question is from Authorization topic in portion Production Checklist, Security Concepts and Network Security of MongoDB

Answer 1

Correct choice is (c) User cannot have several roles in MongoDB

The explanation is: A user can have several roles concurrently, in which case the user receives the union of all the privileges of the respective roles.