MongoDB for Administrators Training Course

MongoDB Architectural Overview

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

Utilizing the MongoDB Shell

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

Single-Server Configuration and Deployment

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

Security

• Native authentication mechanisms
• Best practices for secure deployment

Monitoring MongoDB

• Using mongostat
• Analyzing memory usage and I/O performance
• Integration with monitoring tools: Munin, Cacti, and Nagios
• Utilizing the 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

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

• Interaction between drivers, the shell, and the MongoDB server
• BSON and the MongoDB Wire Protocol
• Diagnosing and resolving application connection issues

Introduction to Read and Write Scalability

Replication and Durability

• Master-slave replication models
• Replica set configurations
• Leveraging write concern for data durability
• Managing replication failures

Auto-Sharding

• Mechanisms of sharding
• Configuring a MongoDB sharded cluster

Selecting a Shard Key

Sharding and Indexes

• Sharding combined with Replica Set Topologies
• Administrative tasks for sharded clusters

Shard and Chunk Migration

Backup and Restore Strategies

• Filesystem-level backup approaches
• Utilizing mongodump and mongorestore
• Employing rsync
• Data import/export via mongoimport and mongoexport