MongoDB Associate Atlas Administrator - Fact Sheet¶

Exam Overview¶

Exam Name: MongoDB Associate Atlas Administrator Duration: 75 minutes Questions: 62 multiple-choice questions Passing Score: 65% Cost: $150 USD Valid For: 3 years Delivery: Online proctored

📖 Official Certification Page - Registration and details 📖 Atlas Documentation - Complete Atlas reference 📖 MongoDB University - Free learning resources

Target Audience¶

This certification is designed for: - Cloud database administrators managing Atlas deployments - DevOps engineers responsible for Atlas infrastructure - Solutions architects designing Atlas-based architectures - Platform engineers building self-service database platforms - Professionals with 6+ months Atlas administration experience

Exam Domains¶

Domain 1: Cluster Management (25%)¶

Cluster Tiers:

Shared vs Dedicated: - M0/M2/M5: Shared infrastructure, limited features - M10+: Dedicated infrastructure, full feature set - M10 minimum for: backup, VPC peering, private endpoints, sharding

📖 Cluster Tiers - Tier comparison

Multi-Cloud and Multi-Region: - Deploy across AWS, Azure, and GCP simultaneously - Multi-region deployments for HA and low latency - Global Clusters for data locality (zone sharding) - Cross-region replication for disaster recovery

Auto-Scaling: - Compute auto-scaling - Automatically adjusts cluster tier up/down - Storage auto-scaling - Automatically increases disk space (enabled by default) - Configurable scaling limits (min/max tier) - Cooldown period between scaling events

📖 Auto-Scaling - Auto-scaling configuration

Domain 2: Security and Access (20%)¶

Network Security:

Database Users: - SCRAM authentication (username/password) - x.509 certificate authentication - AWS IAM authentication - LDAP authentication (M10+) - Custom database roles

Atlas Organization Structure: - Organization - Top level, billing entity - Project - Groups clusters, users, and settings - Cluster - The actual MongoDB deployment

API Keys: - Organization-level and project-level API keys - Programmatic access for automation - IP access list for API keys - Used with Atlas CLI and Admin API

📖 Atlas Security - Security documentation

Domain 3: Data Management (20%)¶

Atlas Search: - Full-text search powered by Lucene - Search indexes on Atlas collections - $search aggregation stage - Autocomplete, fuzzy, compound queries

Performance Advisor: - Analyzes slow queries (M10+ clusters) - Suggests index creation - Shows index usage and recommendations - Identifies redundant indexes

Data Explorer: - Browse collections and documents in Atlas UI - Run queries and aggregations - Insert, edit, and delete documents - View collection statistics

Online Archive: - Automatically archive infrequently accessed data - Data moved to cheaper cloud storage - Queryable alongside live data using Data Federation - Archiving rules based on date or custom criteria

📖 Performance Advisor - Performance optimization

Domain 4: Performance (15%)¶

Key Performance Features: - Real-Time Performance Panel - Live view of active operations - Query Profiler - Analyze slow queries - Performance Advisor - Index suggestions - Cluster Metrics - Historical performance data

Domain 5: Monitoring and Alerts (10%)¶

Built-in Metrics: - Connections, operations, network I/O - Disk utilization, IOPS, latency - CPU utilization, memory usage - Replication lag, oplog window - Cache utilization

Alert Configuration: - Pre-configured alerts for common issues - Custom alert conditions on any metric - Notification channels: email, Slack, PagerDuty, webhooks

📖 Atlas Monitoring - Monitoring documentation

Domain 6: Backup and Restore (10%)¶

Snapshot Policies: - Hourly snapshots (configurable retention) - Daily snapshots (configurable retention) - Weekly snapshots (configurable retention) - Monthly snapshots (configurable retention) - On-demand snapshots

Point-in-Time Restore: - Restore to any second within the oplog window - Available for M10+ dedicated clusters - Restores to a new cluster or existing - Oplog window typically 24 hours

📖 Atlas Backup - Backup documentation

Key Facts to Remember¶