MongoDB Associate Database Administrator
The MongoDB Associate DBA certification validates operating MongoDB deployments: replica sets and elections, sharding and shard-key selection, authentication, authorization and encryption, backup and recovery strategies, monitoring and diagnostics, and deployment and configuration.
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Start C100DBA examSkills measured
Replication
22%Replica-set members and roles, oplog, elections and priority, read preference and write concern, and adding and removing members.
Sharding
20%Sharded-cluster components, choosing a shard key, ranged vs hashed sharding, chunks and the balancer, and zones.
Security
16%SCRAM and x.509 authentication, built-in and custom roles, network encryption (TLS), encryption at rest, and auditing.
Backup and Recovery
14%mongodump/mongorestore, filesystem snapshots, point-in-time recovery, and Ops Manager / Atlas backups.
Monitoring and Diagnostics
16%serverStatus and currentOp, the slow-query log and profiler, mongostat/mongotop, and key metrics to alert on.
Deployment and Configuration
12%The configuration file, storage engine (WiredTiger) settings, resource sizing, and upgrade procedures.