Certificate Authentication

MongoDB Architectural Overview

• Origin, design goals, key features
• Process structure (mongos, mongod, config servers)
• Directory / file structure

Working with the MongoDB Shell

• Documents and data types
• CRUD (Inserts, queries, updates, deletes)
• System commands

Single-server Configuration and Deployment

• Configuration files
• Data files and allocation
• Log files
• Hardware and file-system recommendations

Security

• Built-in authentication
• Recommendations for secure deployment

Monitoring MongoDB

• mongostat
• Analyzing memory and IO performance
• Integration with monitoring tools: Munin / Cacti / Nagios
• MongoDB's web console

Indexing and Query Optimization

• Managing indexes and MongoDB indexing internals
• Single / Compound / Geo indexes
• Identifying sub-optimal queries. Using the query profiler.

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

• How the drivers and shell communicate with MongoDB
• BSON and the MongoDB Wire Protocol
• Troubleshooting application connections

Intro to Read and Write scalability

Replication and Durability

• Master-slave replication
• Replica sets
• Using write concern for durability
• Handling replication failures

Auto-Sharding

• How sharding works
• Setting up a MongoDB shard cluster

Choosing a shard key

Sharding and indexes

• Sharding and Replica Set Topologies
• Administering a sharded cluster

Shard / Chunk Migration

Backup and Restore Plans

• Filesystem-based strategies
• mongodump / mongorestore
• rsync
• mongoimport / mongoexport