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Course Outline

Advanced Data Manipulations

  • Customising the Mongo Shell
  • Optimising CRUD operations (inserts, queries, updates, deletes)
  • Essential administrative commands

Performance optimisation

  • Leveraging built-in monitoring tools: mongotop and mongostat
  • Evaluating memory and IO performance
  • Utilising MongoDB Cloud Manager and Munin
  • Identifying inefficient queries and employing the query profiler
  • Understanding storage engines: MMAPv1 and WiredTiger
  • Mastering the explain plan object

Indexing and special collections

  • Managing indexes and understanding MongoDB indexing internals
  • Implementing single field and compound indexes
  • Creating indexes on arrays and sub-documents
  • Utilising Geo Indexes
  • Working with capped collections, TTL (Time To Live), and tailable cursors

Aggregation

  • Executing single-purpose aggregations
  • Constructing aggregation pipelines
  • Introduction to map-reduce

Replication

  • Understanding asynchronous replication within MongoDB
  • Configuring and maintaining replica sets
  • Implementing write concern and read preference
  • Troubleshooting replication failures

Sharding

  • How automatic sharding functions
  • Configuring a MongoDB shard cluster
  • Selecting an appropriate shard key
  • Advanced administration of sharded clusters
  • Rectifying unbalanced sharded clusters
  • Managing chunks (splitting, merging, and migrating)

Security

  • Authentication and authorisation in replica sets and sharded clusters
  • Managing privileges and defining custom roles
  • Best practices for secure deployment

Backup and Restore Plans

  • Filesystem-based strategies
  • Using mongodump and mongorestore
  • Achieving point-in-time recovery

Requirements

A solid understanding of fundamental and intermediate concepts, supported by several years of practical, on-the-job experience.

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