Question

Point out the correct statement.

(a) To provide user administrators, MongoDB has userAdmin and userAdminAnyDatabase roles

(b) A user administrator can grant any privilege in the database and can create new ones

(c) Specifically, a user with the userAdmin role can grant itself any privilege in the database

(d) All of the mentioned

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This interesting question is from User and Role Management in portion Production Checklist, Security Concepts and Network Security of MongoDB

Answer 1

The correct answer is (d) All of the mentioned

For explanation I would say: A user assigned either the userAdmin role on the admin database or the userAdminAnyDatabase can grant itself any privilege in the system.