MongoDB for Administrators Training Course

MongoDB Architectural Overview

• Origins, design objectives, and core features
• Process architecture (mongos, mongod, config servers)
• Directory and file system layouts

Interacting with the MongoDB Shell

• Data types and document structures
• CRUD operations (Inserts, queries, updates, deletes)
• Essential system commands

Single-Server Configuration and Deployment

• Managing configuration files
• Data file management and allocation
• Log file handling
• Recommendations for hardware and file systems

Security

• Native authentication mechanisms
• Best practices for secure deployment

Monitoring MongoDB

• Utilizing mongostat
• Analysis of memory and IO performance
• Integration with monitoring tools: Munin / Cacti / Nagios
• Use of the MongoDB web console

Indexing and Query Optimization

• Index management and internal indexing mechanisms
• Single, Compound, and Geo indexes
• Identification of inefficient queries and use of the query profiler

Introduction to drivers (Java/Python/Ruby/PHP/Perl)

• Communication methods between drivers, the shell, and MongoDB
• BSON and the MongoDB Wire Protocol
• Diagnosing application connection issues

Introduction to Read and Write Scalability

Replication and Durability

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

Auto-Sharding

• Mechanisms of sharding
• Establishing a MongoDB sharded cluster

Selecting a Shard Key

Sharding and Indexes

• Sharding combined with Replica Set Topologies
• Administration of sharded clusters

Shard / Chunk Migration

Backup and Recovery Strategies

• Filesystem-based approaches
• mongodump / mongorestore
• rsync
• mongoimport / mongoexport