MongoDB for Administrators Training Course

MongoDB Architectural Overview

• Origins, design objectives, and primary features
• Process structure (mongos, mongod, config servers)
• Directory and file structure

Utilizing the MongoDB Shell

• Documents and data types
• CRUD operations (inserts, queries, updates, deletes)
• System-level commands

Single-Server Configuration and Deployment

• Configuration file management
• Data file storage and allocation
• Log file management
• Hardware and file system best practices

Security

• Native authentication mechanisms
• Best practices for secure deployment

Monitoring MongoDB

• Usage of mongostat
• Analysis of memory and IO performance
• Integration with monitoring tools: Munin, Cacti, and Nagios
• The MongoDB web console

Indexing and Query Optimization

• Index management and internal MongoDB indexing mechanisms
• Single, compound, and Geo indexes
• Identifying inefficient queries and utilizing the query profiler

Introduction to Drivers (Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, Perl)

• Communication mechanisms between drivers, the shell, and MongoDB
• BSON and the MongoDB Wire Protocol
• Troubleshooting application connectivity issues

Introduction to Read and Write Scalability

Replication and Durability

• Master-slave replication
• Replica sets
• Utilizing write concern for data durability
• Managing replication failures

Auto-Sharding

• Mechanics of sharding
• Setup of MongoDB shard clusters

Selecting a Shard Key

Sharding and Indexes

• Sharding and Replica Set topologies
• Administration of sharded clusters

Shard and Chunk Migration

Backup and Restore Strategies

• Filesystem-based approaches
• Usage of mongodump and mongorestore
• Implementation of rsync
• Usage of mongoimport and mongoexport