MongoDB for Administrators Training Course

MongoDB Architectural Overview

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

Interacting with the MongoDB Shell

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

Single-Server Configuration and Deployment

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

Security

• Native authentication mechanisms
• Guidelines for secure deployment

Monitoring MongoDB

• Using mongostat
• Analysis of memory and I/O performance
• Integration with monitoring platforms: Munin / Cacti / Nagios
• The MongoDB web console

Indexing and Query Optimisation

• Index management and MongoDB indexing internals
• Single, compound, and geo indexes
• Identifying inefficient queries and utilising 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
• Resolving application connection issues

Overview of Read and Write Scalability

Replication and Durability

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

Auto-Sharding

• Sharding mechanics
• Setting up a MongoDB sharded cluster

Shard Key Selection

Sharding and Indexes

• Sharding with Replica Set Topologies
• Administration of sharded clusters

Shard and Chunk Migration

Backup and Restore Strategies

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