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Instructor: Dwight Merriman

Dwight is one of the original authors of MongoDB, the open-source document database. In 1995, he co-founded DoubleClick (acquired by Google for $3.1 billion) and served as Chief Technology Officer for 10 years. Dwight was the architect of the DoubleClick ad serving infrastructure, DART, which serves tens of billions of ads per day. Earlier he was Co-Founder, Chairman, and the original architect of Panther Express (merged with CDNetworks), a content distribution network (CDN) technology. Dwight is also a Co-Founder of, and investor in, Business Insider and Gilt Groupe.

What You'll Learn

This course begins by assuming you have no experience with MongoDB, taking you through the basics of installation. Then you will learn about JSON and Mongo's extensive query capabilities through the Mongo shell. We will cover importing, and exporting data into Mongo. After that, we cover replication and fault tolerance. Then it is on to scaling out with MongoDB, including indexing, performance tuning, monitoring, and sharding. Finally, we cover backups and recovery.

Prerequisites:
Basic system administration skills. A working knowledge of relational database concepts is helpful but not required. Javascript is the shell language for MongoDB and rudimentary knowledge of that is also helpful, but not required.

What You'll Build
After completing this course, you should have a good understanding as to administer a MongoDB installation in production. Plus, you will have a great foundation when preparing for the MongoDB DBA Certification exam. Learn more about how to become a MongoDB Certified Professional.
Course Details
  • Duration: 7 weeks
  • Each week we release new video lectures and assignments.
  • Each week requires approximately 3-5 hours of your time, depending on your level of preparation.
  • You will receive a course completion confirmation at the end of the course if you achieve a 65% or above on graded material.
  • Your final grade for the course will be comprised of weekly assignments which count for half of your grade and a final exam/project which counts for the other half of your grade.
Agenda
  • Week 1: Introduction and Overview
  • Week 2: Creating, Reading and Updating Data (CRUD)
  • Week 3: Performance
  • Week 4: Replication
  • Week 5: Replication, Part 2
  • Week 6: Scalability
  • Week 7: Backup and Recovery
System Requirements
  • Web Browser: Firefox 39.0+ or Chrome 43+ (Internet Explorer is currently not supported)
  • Operating System: Mac OS X 10.7+ 64-bit, Ubuntu 14.04+ 64-bit, or Windows 8+ (64-bit)
  • MongoDB: 3.2.12+

FAQ

MongoDB University courses are free.

You will need access to a computer and YouTube. A recent Windows, Mac OS or Linux based machine will work fine.

You will get a course completion confirmation from MongoDB, Inc.

No. Each course is composed of pre-recorded lesson videos you may watch at any time during the run of the course. There are weekly deadlines for assignments.

You will receive a final grade but the grade won't be on your course completion confirmation. To receive a course completion confirmation, you will need to achieve 65% on graded material. There are three different types of assessments within the course: quizzes, weekly assignments and a final exam/project. Quizzes don't count toward your grade. Quizzes are intended to help you check your own understanding. The weekly assignments will comprise one half of your grade and the final exam/project one half of your grade. Most assignments will be due on Tuesdays. Each week we will release new video lectures and a new assignments. Unfortunately, due to the large number of students and in the interest of fairness, late assignments cannot be accepted.

Each course has an active online forum where students can help each other. In addition, the instructor(s), teaching assistants and other MongoDB employees will monitor the forums and try to help. Often the fastest answer comes from another student.