MongoDB for Administrators Training Course

MongoDB Architectural Overview

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

Working with the MongoDB Shell

• Document structures and data types
• CRUD operations (insertion, querying, updating, deletion)
• System-level commands

Single-server Configuration and Deployment

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

Security

• Native authentication mechanisms
• Guidelines for secure deployment

Monitoring MongoDB

• Utilising mongostat
• Analysis of memory and IO performance
• Integration with monitoring platforms: Munin, Cacti, Nagios
• The MongoDB web interface

Indexing and Query Optimization

• Index management and internal MongoDB indexing mechanics
• Single, compound, and geospatial indexes
• Detection of inefficient queries and use of the query profiler

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

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

Intro to Read and Write scalability

Replication and Durability

• Master-slave replication models
• Replica set architecture
• Leveraging write concern for data durability
• Management of replication faults

Auto-Sharding

• Sharding mechanics and processes
• Configuration of MongoDB shard clusters

Choosing a shard key

Sharding and indexes

• Sharding in conjunction with Replica Set Topologies
• Administrative management of sharded clusters

Shard / Chunk Migration

Backup and Restore Plans

• Filesystem-centric backup approaches
• Use of mongodump and mongorestore
• Implementation of rsync
• Utilisation of mongoimport and mongoexport