MongoDB for Administrators Training Course

MongoDB Architecture Overview

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

Interacting with the MongoDB Shell

• Documents and data type structures
• CRUD operations (insertion, querying, updating, deletion)
• System-level commands

Configuring and Deploying Single-Server Setups

• Managing configuration files
• Data file management and allocation
• Log file handling
• Hardware and file system best practices

Security Measures

• Native authentication mechanisms
• Guidelines for secure deployment

Monitoring MongoDB Instances

• Utilizing mongostat
• Analysis of memory and I/O performance
• Integration with tools such as Munin, Cacti, and Nagios
• Using the MongoDB web console

Indexing and Query Performance

• Index management and internal indexing mechanisms
• Single, compound, and geo-spatial indexes
• Identifying inefficient queries and applying the query profiler

Introduction to Drivers (Java/Python/Ruby/PHP/Perl)

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

Introduction to Read and Write Scalability

Replication and Data Durability

• Master-slave replication models
• Implementation of replica sets
• Leveraging write concern for data integrity
• Managing replication failures

Automatic Sharding

• Understanding the sharding mechanism
• Establishing a MongoDB shard cluster

Optimizing the Shard Key

Sharding and Index Management

• Sharding combined with Replica Set topologies
• Administrative tasks for sharded clusters

Shard and Chunk Migration

Backup and Recovery Strategies

• Filesystem-based backup approaches
• Using mongodump and mongorestore
• Applying rsync
• Utilizing mongoimport and mongoexport