MongoDB for Administrators Training Course

MongoDB Architectural Overview

• Origins, design principles, and key features
• Process structure, including mongos, mongod, and config servers
• Directory and file structure

Working with the MongoDB Shell

• Document formats and data types
• CRUD operations: inserts, queries, updates, and deletes
• Essential system commands

Single-server Configuration and Deployment

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

Security

• Built-in authentication mechanisms
• Recommendations for secure deployment

Monitoring MongoDB

• Using mongostat
• Analyzing memory and I/O performance
• Integration with monitoring tools: Munin, Cacti, and Nagios
• Utilizing MongoDB's web console

Indexing and Query Optimization

• Managing indexes and understanding MongoDB indexing internals
• Single, compound, and Geo indexes
• Identifying sub-optimal queries and using 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
• Troubleshooting application connections

Intro to Read and Write scalability

Replication and Durability

• Master-slave replication
• Replica sets
• Using write concern to ensure durability
• Handling replication failures

Auto-Sharding

• Mechanics of sharding
• Setting up a MongoDB shard cluster

Choosing a shard key

Sharding and indexes

• Sharding and Replica Set Topologies
• Administering a sharded cluster

Shard / Chunk Migration

Backup and Restore Plans

• Filesystem-based strategies
• mongodump / mongorestore
• rsync
• mongoimport / mongoexport