MongoDB for Administrators Training Course

MongoDB Architectural Overview

• Origins, design objectives, and key features
• Process architecture (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 file handling and allocation
• Log file management
• Hardware and file-system best practices

Security

• Native authentication mechanisms
• Guidelines for secure deployment

Monitoring MongoDB

• mongostat usage
• Analysis of memory and IO performance
• Integration with monitoring platforms: Munin / Cacti / Nagios
• Web-based console features

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

Foundations of Read and Write Scalability

Replication and Durability

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

Auto-Sharding

• Sharding mechanisms
• Establishing MongoDB shard clusters

Selecting a Shard Key

Sharding and Indexing

• Interplay between sharding and replica set topologies
• Administering sharded clusters

Shard and Chunk Migration

Backup and Restore Strategies

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