MongoDB for Administrators Training Course

Overview of MongoDB Architecture

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

Using the MongoDB Shell

• Documents and data types
• CRUD operations (insertions, queries, updates, deletions)
• System commands

Configuration and Deployment on a Single Server

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

Security

• Native authentication mechanisms
• Best practices for secure deployment

Monitoring MongoDB

• mongostat
• Analysis of memory and I/O performance
• Integration with monitoring tools such as Munin, Cacti, and Nagios
• MongoDB web console

Indexing and Query Optimization

• Index management and MongoDB indexing internals
• 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, the shell, and MongoDB
• BSON and the MongoDB Wire Protocol
• Troubleshooting application connectivity

Foundations of Read and Write Scalability

Replication and Durability

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

Automatic Sharding

• Sharding mechanics
• Setting up MongoDB shard clusters

Selecting a Shard Key

Sharding and Indexes

• Sharding with Replica Set Topologies
• Administration of sharded clusters

Shard and Chunk Migration

Backup and Recovery Strategies

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