MongoDB for Administrators Training Course

MongoDB Architecture Overview

• Origins, design objectives, and core features
• Process structure (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 file management and allocation
• Log files
• Hardware and file system recommendations

Security

• Native authentication mechanisms
• Guidelines for secure deployment

Monitoring MongoDB

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

Indexing and Query Optimization

• Index management and MongoDB indexing internals
• Single, compound, and Geo indexes
• Identifying inefficient queries and utilizing the query profiler

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

• Communication between drivers/shell and MongoDB
• BSON and the MongoDB Wire Protocol
• Troubleshooting application connections

Introduction to Read and Write Scalability

Replication and Durability

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

Auto-Sharding

• Mechanisms of sharding
• Setting up a MongoDB sharded cluster

Selecting a Shard Key

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