Question

Administrators can implement collection-level access control through user-defined __________

(a) roles

(b) replica sets

(c) shards

(d) none of the mentioned

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This question is from Collection-Level Access Control in chapter Production Checklist, Security Concepts and Network Security of MongoDB

Answer 1

The correct option is (a) roles

To elaborate: By creating a role with privileges that are scoped to a specific collection in a particular database, administrators can provision users with roles that grant privileges on a collection level.