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I am going to a tournament that has each battle having 2 primary missions and of course the secondaries.
The wording is "Each scenario is built using two missions simultaneously along with all three secondary missions."
Does this mean I am going to have a lot more objectives that normal?
I have never played at this kind of tournament so some clarification would be helpful.

It sounds like they are doing a LVO format. Typically it is two book missions. One is primary for (4) points, one is secondary for (3) points. Then you have the normal secondary FB, Warlord, Linebreaker for (1) point. (points vary by TO).

For example,

Primary - Purge the Alien
Secondary - The Relic
Tertiary- First Blood, Linebreaker, Warlord.

Whoever wins the mission gets the points. The one with the most points wins the game.

The other common format in the Austin area is two missions, each worth up to 10 VPs. You essentially play two missions at once and at the end of the game, you can score up to 10 VPs for each plus 1 each for first blood, line breaker and warlord. The tournament is then scored by total victory points.

Actually, it sounds like the Adepticon 40k mission structure (or at least the ones from last year). For those, the missions themselves told you how to deal with it:

Victory Conditions: The player who has successfully achieved more Primary Objectives at the end of the game earns a Crushing Victory. If neither player has secured victory through Primary Objectives, then the player who has successfully achieved more Secondary Objectives earns a Minor Victory and his opponent earns a Minor Defeat. If neither player has secured victory through Primary or Secondary Objectives, then the game ends in a Tactical Draw.

If I complete 1 Primary Objective, and you complete none, I have a Crushing Victory. If we both complete 1 Primary Objective, we look to the Secondary Objectives.

Basically, you need to ask the TO for the actual event. Lots of tournaments have taken the idea of "multiple primary objectives" and gone in different directions with it.