MongoDB for Administrators Training Course

MongoDB Architecture Overview

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

Utilizing the MongoDB Shell

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

Single-Server Setup and Deployment

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

Security

• Native authentication mechanisms
• Best practices for secure deployment

MongoDB Monitoring

• mongostat utility
• Analyzing memory and I/O performance
• Integration with monitoring tools: Munin / Cacti / Nagios
• MongoDB web console

Indexing and Query Optimization

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

Driver Introduction (Java/Python/Ruby/PHP/Perl)

• Communication mechanisms between drivers, the shell, and MongoDB
• BSON and the MongoDB Wire Protocol
• Resolving application connection issues

Introduction to Read and Write Scalability

Replication and Durability

• Master-slave replication
• Replica sets
• Ensuring durability using write concern
• Managing replication failures

Auto-Sharding

• Sharding mechanics
• Setting up a MongoDB shard cluster

Selecting a Shard Key

Sharding and Indexes

• Sharding combined with Replica Set topologies
• Administrating a sharded cluster

Shard and Chunk Migration

Backup and Restore Strategies

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