The Great MongoDB Skill Badge Haunt of 2026
Level up your modern database skills and scare away the pain points that haunt you most!

How it Works
Follow these steps to get started and earn MongoDB Skill Badges!
1. Learn
Select a Skill Badge from below. Watch videos and practice with hands-on exercises.
2. Validate
When you get to the skill check, enter your company email (company.com). Showcase your knowledge in a short 10-question skill check.
3. Earn
Claim your Credly badge and share it on social media.
The Six Pain Points That Haunt Developers
Behold! The Great Badge Haunt! Pick from badges on the document model, schema design, query optimization, RAG and generative AI, cluster reliability, and AI data strategy. Collect as many as you like, in any order. Each one banishes a different fear that haunts developers. Afterwards, continue earning badges.
Use these skill guides to aid your quest!
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Relational to Document Model
Banish this ghost, which traps your data in rigid tables, by mastering conversion to MongoDB's document model, flexible relationships, and schema vali…
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Schema Design Patterns and Anti-patterns
Banish this ghost, which tangles your queries in JOINs, by mastering key schema design patterns and avoiding the antipatterns that summon it.
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RAG with MongoDB
Banish this ghost, which tricks your LLM into hallucinating answers, by mastering vector search, retrieval optimization, and grounding your LLM apps i…
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Cluster Reliability
Banish this ghost, which strikes at the worst moment and drags your cluster into the dark, by mastering cluster diagnostics to keep your database heal…
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Query Optimization
Banish this ghost, which slows queries and drains your cluster's resources, by hunting it with tools like Query Profiler and explain(), then fixing it…
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AI Data Strategy
Banish this ghost, which scatters your data across disconnected tools and formats, by learning how MongoDB unifies data across tools and formats to st…
Gen AI Skill Badges
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Vector Search Fundamentals
Learn how to leverage MongoDB Atlas Vector Search to build intelligent, AI-powered search experiences for applications. Explore indexing, embeddings, …
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AI Agents with MongoDB
Learn how to build and deploy AI agents using MongoDB. Understand orchestration, data storage strategies, and how to integrate AI models with real-ti…
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Evaluating an Agentic Platform
Discover how to evaluate agentic AI platforms for secure, reliable production use. Learn to assess governance, security, observability, scalability, d…
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Voyage AI with MongoDB
Learn what vector embeddings are, how they’re created, and why they’re essential for powering modern AI applications and semantic search.
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Memory for AI Applications
Learn to design and implement memory systems for AI applications that combine short term and long term memory using MongoDB, LangGraph, and vector sea…
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Building an App with Code Agents and MongoDB
Learn to build and improve an application using MongoDB Agent Skills, the MongoDB MCP Server, and Atlas Vector Search.
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Retrieval Evaluation
Learn to evaluate retrieval systems objectively using a three-part framework (corpus, queries, and relevance judgments) that underlies every benchmark…
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Governance for AI Agents
Learn how AI agents have reshaped software by creating new areas that must be controlled, audited, and updated, along with new openings for failures a…
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Observability for AI Agents
This badge is for experienced AI engineers, platform engineers, SREs, and developers who already build or run agents and want to go beyond basic monit…
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Vector Search Performance
Learn how MongoDB Vector Search works under the hood and what to do when it slows down in production.
Architecture
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MongoDB Overview
Discover the core concepts and architectural strengths of MongoDB.
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Agility and Velocity
Learn how to identify and eliminate the architectural friction that slows growing applications by examining the Schema Disconnect, the Growth Paradox,…
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MongoDB Basics for Students
Learn database fundamentals, the document model, distributed database architecture, and how to deploy a MongoDB Atlas cluster.
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Reliability and Availability
Learn how MongoDB is designed to keep critical applications running when failures occur.
Data Modeling Skill Badges
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Advanced Schema Patterns & Antipatterns
Learn advanced schema design patterns like approximation and schema versioning and how to manage schema lifecycle changes.
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Schema Design Optimization
Optimize performance with schema design patterns like single collection and bucket and learn how to refine data models.
Indexing, Querying and Aggregation Skill Badges
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CRUD Operations
Learn to perform Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations using MongoDB.
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Fundamentals of Data Transformation
Learn how to build aggregation pipelines to process, transform, and analyze data efficiently in MongoDB.
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Indexing Design Fundamentals
Learn how to design efficient indexes to speed up queries, and reduce resource consumption in MongoDB.
Search, Sharding, Monitoring, Tuning and Automation Skill Badges
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Search Fundamentals
Learn how to apply the fundamentals of MongoDB Search, including lexical search, indexing strategies, and query optimization. Build efficient, full-te…
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Sharding Strategies
Learn how to design, implement, and manage sharded clusters to scale MongoDB horizontally and optimize performance
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MongoDB Monitoring Tooling
Learn how to monitor MongoDB deployments effectively using built-in tools like MongoDB Atlas Monitoring and third-party solutions. Gain insights into …
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Performance Tools and Techniques
Learn how to apply performance tuning techniques in MongoDB through profiling, slow query analysis, and system monitoring.
Security Skill Badges
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Secure MongoDB Self-Managed: AuthN and AuthZ
Learn how to secure MongoDB in self-managed environments through authentication and authorization techniques.
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Secure MongoDB Atlas: AuthN and AuthZ
Learn how to configure authentication and authorization in MongoDB Atlas to secure access to your database.
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Networking Security: Atlas
Learn how to configure network security settings to protect cloud-based deployments.
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Networking Security: Self-Managed
Learn how to apply best practices for securing MongoDB deployments in self-managed environments.
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Encryption at Rest
Learn how to encrypt MongoDB data at rest using customer-managed encryption keys (BYOK). Understand how to integrate key management systems (KMS) and …
Performance at Scale Skill Badges
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Data Resilience: Self-Managed
Learn MongoDB's data resilience strategies to ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and cybersecurity preparedness.
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Data Resilience: Atlas
Learn how to implement data resilience strategies in MongoDB Atlas to protect against downtime and data loss.
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Scale and Adapt
Learn how business growth puts pressure on data architectures in more ways than just increased traffic.