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Geared for experienced developers, Introduction to MongoDB for Developers is a comprehensive course that provides you with hands-on experience with the MongoDB query language, aggregation framework, data modeling, indexes, drivers, basic performance tuning, high availability and scaling. Throughout the course, you'll explore the MongoDB Atlas database environment in detail, gaining job-ready skills you can put right to work after class.


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This course is approximately 50% hands-on lab to lecture ratio, combining engaging expert lessons, demos and group discussions with real-world, skills-focused machine-based labs and exercises. Working in a hands-on learning environment, guided by our expert team, you'll explore:

Storage Basics
MongoDB Document Model
MongoDB Setup
CRUD: Basics through Advanced Concepts
Performance: Basics through Advanced Concepts
Aggregation: Basics through Advanced Concepts
Replication: Basics through Advanced Concepts
Sharding: Basics through Advanced Concepts
Schema Design
Security Basics, Authentication & Authorization
Application Development and Drivers

Need different skills or topics? If your team requires different topics or tools, additional skills or custom approach, this course may be further adjusted to accommodate. We offer database, full stack, development, security and other related topics that may be blended with this course for a track that best suits your needs.

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Please note that this list of topics is based on our standard course offering, evolved from typical industry uses and trends. We will work with you to tune this course and level of coverage to target the skills you need most. Course agenda, topics and labs are subject to adjust during live delivery in response to student skill level, interests and participation.

Day 1

Storage Basics

What is a Storage Engine?
WiredTiger Storage Engine
In-Memory Storage Engine
Encrypted Storage Engine

MongoDB Document Model

JSON and BSON
MongoDB Data Types

MongoDB Setup

Lab: Atlas Setup / Local MongoDB Setup

CRUD Basics

Insert Command
Find Command
Query Operators
Lab: Finding Documents
Remove Command
Updating Documents
Lab: Updating Documents

CRUD Advanced

Bulk Writes
Retryable Writes
Find and Modify
Transactions

Performance Basics

Indexes
Lab: Creating Indexes
Lab: Using explain()

Aggregation Basics

Aggregation Pipeline Concepts
Aggregation Pipeline Stages
Aggregation Pipeline Expressions
Lab: Writing Aggregation Queries

Day 2

Aggregation Advanced

$lookup stage
$graphLookup stage
Lab: Using $graphLookup
$expr operator
Lab: Using $expr
Faceted Search
Type Conversions
Advanced Expression Operators
Date Expression Operators
Expression Variables
Aggregation Pipeline Optimizations
Aggregation in a Sharded Cluster

Replication Basics

MongoDB Replica Sets
Replica Set Use Cases
Replication Mechanics

Replication Advanced

Using Write Concern to Tune Durability Semantics
Using Read Concern to Tune Read Isolation
Using Read Preference
Replica Set Tag Sets

Sharding Basics

Sharding Concepts
When to Shard
What is a Shard Key?
Zoned Sharding / MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters

Sharding Advanced

Components of a Sharded Cluster
Sharding Mechanics
Choosing a Good Shard Key

Day 3

Schema Design

Schema Design Core Concepts
Common Patterns
Lab: Data Model for an E-Commerce Site

Security Basics

Authentication & Authorization
Lab: Creating an Admin User
Lab: Creating a readWrite User
Network Encryption
Encryption at Rest
Auditing

Application Development and Drivers

Application Development with MongoDB Drivers
Lab: Driver Tutorial

Performance Advanced

Designing Compound Indexes
Indexing Arrays
Covered Queries
Using hint() and Index Filters

This introductory-level course is for experienced application developers new to MongoDB. In order to gain the most from this course, you should have:

Basic programming experience. Course examples leverage basic Java syntax, so experience with Java or another OO language will be helpful.
Prior experience working with databases (Such as MySQL, etc.)
Experience working in Linux and / or be comfortable working from the command line.

This introductory-level course is for experienced application developers new to MongoDB. In order to gain the most from this course, you should have:

Basic programming experience. Course examples leverage basic Java syntax, so experience with Java or another OO language will be helpful.
Prior experience working with databases (Such as MySQL, etc.)
Experience working in Linux and / or be comfortable working from the command line.

Introduction to MongoDB for Developers

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