diff --git a/src/connection_string.ts b/src/connection_string.ts
index 3d367b4611..04532ae678 100644
--- a/src/connection_string.ts
+++ b/src/connection_string.ts
@@ -340,7 +340,9 @@ export function parseOptions(
     }
   }
 
-  const objectOptions = new CaseInsensitiveMap(Object.entries(options));
+  const objectOptions = new CaseInsensitiveMap(
+    Object.entries(options).filter(([, v]) => (v ?? null) !== null)
+  );
 
   const allOptions = new CaseInsensitiveMap();
 
@@ -369,8 +371,10 @@ export function parseOptions(
     Array.from(Object.keys(OPTIONS)).map(s => s.toLowerCase())
   );
   if (unsupportedOptions.size !== 0) {
+    const optionWord = unsupportedOptions.size > 1 ? 'options' : 'option';
+    const isOrAre = unsupportedOptions.size > 1 ? 'are' : 'is';
     throw new MongoParseError(
-      `options ${Array.from(unsupportedOptions).join(', ')} are not supported`
+      `${optionWord} ${Array.from(unsupportedOptions).join(', ')} ${isOrAre} not supported`
     );
   }
 
diff --git a/test/unit/mongo_client_options.test.js b/test/unit/mongo_client_options.test.js
index c848809f5b..0ceb8ce076 100644
--- a/test/unit/mongo_client_options.test.js
+++ b/test/unit/mongo_client_options.test.js
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ const { WriteConcern } = require('../../src/write_concern');
 const { ReadPreference } = require('../../src/read_preference');
 const { Logger } = require('../../src/logger');
 const { MongoCredentials } = require('../../src/cmap/auth/mongo_credentials');
-const { MongoClient } = require('../../src');
+const { MongoClient, MongoParseError } = require('../../src');
 
 describe('MongoOptions', function () {
   it('MongoClient should always freeze public options', function () {
@@ -138,9 +138,8 @@ describe('MongoOptions', function () {
     zlibCompressionLevel: 2
   };
 
-  it('All options', function () {
+  it('should parse all options from the options object', function () {
     const options = parseOptions('mongodb://localhost:27017/', ALL_OPTIONS);
-
     // Check consolidated options
     expect(options).has.property('writeConcern');
     expect(options.writeConcern).has.property('w', 2);
@@ -183,7 +182,7 @@ describe('MongoOptions', function () {
       'zlibCompressionLevel=2'
     ].join('&');
 
-  it('All URI options', function () {
+  it('should parse all options from the URI string', function () {
     const options = parseOptions(allURIOptions);
     expect(options).has.property('zlibCompressionLevel', 2);
 
@@ -192,6 +191,40 @@ describe('MongoOptions', function () {
     expect(options.writeConcern).has.property('wtimeout', 2);
   });
 
+  it('should ignore undefined and null values in the options object', function () {
+    const options = parseOptions('mongodb://localhost:27017/', {
+      maxPoolSize: null,
+      servername: undefined,
+      randomopt: null,
+      otherrandomopt: undefined
+    });
+
+    // test valid option key with default value
+    expect(options).to.have.property('maxPoolSize', 100);
+
+    // test valid option key without default value
+    expect(options).not.to.have.property('servername');
+
+    // test invalid option keys that are null/undefined
+    expect(options).not.to.have.property('randomopt');
+    expect(options).not.to.have.property('otherrandomopt');
+  });
+
+  it('should throw an error on unrecognized keys in the options object if they are defined', function () {
+    expect(() =>
+      parseOptions('mongodb://localhost:27017/', {
+        randomopt: 'test'
+      })
+    ).to.throw(MongoParseError, 'option randomopt is not supported');
+
+    expect(() =>
+      parseOptions('mongodb://localhost:27017/', {
+        randomopt: 'test',
+        randomopt2: 'test'
+      })
+    ).to.throw(MongoParseError, 'options randomopt, randomopt2 are not supported');
+  });
+
   it('srvHost saved to options for later resolution', function () {
     const options = parseOptions('mongodb+srv://server.example.com/');
     expect(options).has.property('srvHost', 'server.example.com');