MongoDB for Administrators Training Course

MongoDB Architecture Overview

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

Utilizing the MongoDB Shell

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

Single-Server Configuration and Deployment

• Configuration file management
• Data files and allocation strategies
• Log file management
• Hardware and file system recommendations

Security

• Built-in authentication mechanisms
• Best practices for secure deployment

Monitoring MongoDB

• Usage of mongostat
• Analyzing memory and IO performance
• Integration with monitoring tools: Munin, Cacti, and Nagios
• The MongoDB web console

Indexing and Query Optimization

• Index management and internal indexing mechanics
• Single, compound, and geospatial indexes
• Identifying inefficient queries and utilizing 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

Introduction to Read and Write Scalability

Replication and Durability

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

Auto-Sharding

• Sharding mechanics
• Setting up a MongoDB shard cluster

Selecting a Shard Key

Sharding and Indexes

• Sharding and Replica Set topologies
• Administering a sharded cluster

Shard and Chunk Migration

Backup and Restore Strategies

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