MongoDB for Administrators Training Course

MongoDB Architectural Overview

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

Interacting with the MongoDB Shell

• Documents and data types
• CRUD operations (insertions, queries, updates, deletions)
• 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
• Analysing memory and I/O performance
• Integration with monitoring tools: Munin / Cacti / Nagios
• The MongoDB web console

Indexing and Query Optimisation

• Index management and internal indexing mechanisms
• Single, compound, and geo-spatial indexes
• Identifying inefficient queries and leveraging the query profiler

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

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

Introduction to Read and Write Scalability

Replication and Durability

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

Auto-Sharding

• Mechanics of sharding
• Configuring a MongoDB sharded cluster

Selecting a Shard Key

Sharding and Indexes

• Sharding in conjunction with Replica Set topologies
• Administration of sharded clusters

Shard / Chunk Migration

Backup and Restoration Strategies

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