MongoDB for Administrators Training Course

MongoDB Architectural Overview

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

Utilizing the MongoDB Shell

• Document structure and data types
• CRUD operations (inserts, queries, updates, deletions)
• System-level commands

Single-Server Configuration and Deployment

• Configuration file management
• Data file handling and allocation
• Logging practices
• Hardware and file system best practices

Security Implementation

• Native authentication mechanisms
• Best practices for secure deployments

Monitoring MongoDB

• Using mongostat
• Analysis of memory and I/O performance
• Integration with monitoring platforms: Munin, Cacti, or Nagios
• Utilizing the MongoDB web console

Indexing and Query Optimization

• Index management and internal indexing mechanics
• Single, compound, and geospatial indexes
• Identifying inefficient queries and leveraging the query profiler

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

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

Foundations of Read and Write Scalability

Replication and Durability

• Master-slave replication models
• Replica set architecture
• Leveraging write concern for data durability
• Managing replication failures

Auto-Sharding Mechanisms

• Operational principles of sharding
• Establishing a MongoDB shard cluster

Selecting Effective Shard Keys

Sharding and Index Interaction

• Sharding within Replica Set topologies
• Administration of sharded clusters

Shard and Chunk Migration

Backup and Recovery Strategies

• Filesystem-based backup approaches
• Usage of mongodump and mongorestore
• Implementation of rsync
• Utilizing mongoimport and mongoexport