MongoDB for Administrators Training Course

MongoDB Architectural Overview

• Origins, design principles, and key features
• Process architecture (mongos, mongod, config servers)
• Directory and file system structure

Working with the MongoDB Shell

• Documents and data types
• CRUD operations (inserts, queries, updates, deletes)
• 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

• Native authentication mechanisms
• Best practices for secure deployment

Monitoring MongoDB

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

Indexing and Query Optimization

• Index management and internal MongoDB 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 between drivers, the shell, and MongoDB
• BSON and the MongoDB Wire Protocol
• Troubleshooting application connectivity issues

Intro to Read and Write scalability

Replication and Durability

• Master-slave replication
• Replica sets
• Ensuring durability through write concerns
• Managing replication failures

Auto-Sharding

• Mechanisms of sharding
• Configuring a MongoDB shard cluster

Choosing a shard key

Sharding and indexes

• Sharding within Replica Set Topologies
• Administration of sharded clusters

Shard / Chunk Migration

Backup and Restore Plans

• Filesystem-based backup strategies
• Using mongodump and mongorestore
• Utilizing rsync
• Data transfer with mongoimport and mongoexport