MongoDB for Administrators Training Course

MongoDB Architectural Overview

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

Working with the MongoDB Shell

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

Single-server Configuration and Deployment

• Managing configuration files
• Data file management and allocation
• Log file handling
• Hardware and file-system best practices

Security

• Native authentication mechanisms
• Guidelines for secure deployment environments

Monitoring MongoDB

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

Indexing and Query Optimization

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

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

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

Intro to Read and Write scalability

Replication and Durability

• Master-slave replication models
• Replica sets
• Ensuring durability through write concern settings
• Managing replication failures

Auto-Sharding

• Sharding mechanics and logic
• Provisioning a MongoDB shard cluster

Choosing a shard key

Sharding and indexes

• Sharding within Replica Set Topologies
• Administration of sharded clusters

Shard / Chunk Migration

Backup and Restore Plans

• Filesystem-level backup strategies
• Use of mongodump and mongorestore
• Utilizing rsync
• Data transfer via mongoimport and mongoexport