MongoDB for Administrators Training Course

Architectural Overview of MongoDB

• Origins, design objectives, and core features
• Process architecture (mongos, mongod, config servers)
• Directory and file structure layout

Interacting with the MongoDB Shell

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

Single-Server Setup and Deployment

• Configuration file management
• Data file handling and allocation
• Logging mechanisms
• Guidelines for hardware and file system selection

Security Measures

• Native authentication features
• Best practices for secure deployment

Monitoring MongoDB Instances

• Utilizing mongostat
• Performance analysis of memory and I/O
• Integration with external monitoring tools: Munin, Cacti, and Nagios
• Overview of MongoDB’s web console

Indexing and Query Tuning

• Index management and internal MongoDB indexing mechanics
• Single, compound, and geo-spatial indexes
• Identifying inefficient queries and utilizing the query profiler

Driver Introduction (Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, Perl)

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

Foundations of Read and Write Scalability

Replication and Data Durability

• Master-slave replication models
• Replica set implementation
• Leveraging write concern for durability
• Managing replication errors

Automatic Sharding

• Sharding mechanisms and functionality
• Deploying a MongoDB sharded cluster

Selecting an Effective Shard Key

Sharding and Indexing Strategies

• Sharding combined with Replica Set topologies
• Administration of sharded clusters

Shard and Chunk Migration

Backup and Restoration Strategies

• Filesystem-based backup approaches
• Using mongodump and mongorestore
• Implementing rsync
• Data transfer with mongoimport and mongoexport