By end of this MongoDB Essentials course, you will be ready to start building real- world applications on MongoDB and to recommend the best deployment strategies for those applications.

Day 1 - General Training Part I

1. MongoDB Introduction
• What is MongoDB and Why?
• Core concepts
• Environments
• Documentation
• Different deployment models
• JSON
• Installation

2. CRUD and the MongoDB shell
• Introduction to the MongoDB API and the core concepts of documents and collections

3. Indexing and Schema Design
• Indexing, query profiling and the query optimizer
• Some schema design case studies
• Practice modeling various domains
• Schemas for atomic operations

Day 2 - General Training Part II

4. Drivers
• How the drivers work in general
• Driver APIs with examples

5. Replication
• Overview of replication
• Setting up replica sets
• How replication affects application design

6. Performance Troubleshooting
• Getting information about MongoDB
• Performance indicators

7. Monitoring
• Typical monitoring setup.
• How to integrate with custom monitoring solutions.
• Red flags - what to watch for.

Day 3 - General Training Part III

8. Sharding
• Overview
• Setting up sharding
• How sharding affects application design

9. Backups and Recovery
• mongodump based approaches
• File system/storage level approaches
• Tradeoffs

10. Additional topics as time/interest permits
• GeoSpatial Indexes
• GridFS
• Aggregation

Q & A and Hands-on work.