MongoDB

Certification Study
Group
Norberto Leite
Curriculum Engineer
 Agenda
• Structure of the exam
• Topics Covered
• Practice Questions
• Q&A
Exam Structure: Purpose of the
Exam
• MongoDB certifications recognize developers and DBAs with
the knowledge needed to build and maintain MongoDB
applications.

• Increase your visibility among hiring managers and recruiters.

Exam Structure: Your Environment

• You must be alone

• Reference materials are forbidden
• Your desk must be clean
• You can have only one monitor
• No headphones
• No pen and paper
Exam Structure: Profile Photo

• Upload a high-quality profile photo

• Taken in front of a plain white or off-white background
• Image dimensions must be in a square aspect ratio (the height
must be equal to the width)
• This will go on your certificate, and employers will see this
• And don’t forget to smile :)
 Exam Structure: ID Required

You will require:

• Official government identification document
• This is to validate your identity
• Examples:
• Driving license
• National Id
• Passport
Exam Structure: Computer
Required
• Mac or Windows
• Not Linux
• Desktop or Laptop
• Webcam required
• If it’s on a desktop, it must be able to detach so that you can show
the exam proctor the room.
 Exam Structure: Rules

• You will not be able to:

• Navigate to other websites
• View reference material
• Consult with others
• But…
• You may visit a translation website such as Google Translate
• During the exam we will record:
• Computer activity
• Audio
• Video
• During the exam, you will be watched by a proctor.
Exam Structure: Question Format

• Two basic types of questions

• Multiple Choice
• Check All that Apply
• Multiple choice questions
• Only 1 correct option
• 5 options (in almost all cases)
• Guessing will be correct 20% of the time.
• Check All that Apply
• 1, 2 or 3 correct choices
• No partial credit
Exam Structure: Question
Ordering
• Most answers are randomized
• Not in cases where there is a clear progression
• e.g. How many documents are in the collection?
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
Exam Format: Issues with
Questions
• Beneath each question is a link where you can report
problems.
• We do look at these daily, and if there are issues with the
problem, we will:
• Modify the problem
• Give credit as appropriate
Exam Format: Time Allotted

• The exam is 90 minutes

• The exam will contain 60 questions
• So you’ll have 90 seconds (1.5 minutes) per question
• No penalty for incorrect answers
• You should guess and never leave a
question blank!
Exam MongoDB Version

• 3.0 Content!
https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/release-notes/3.0/
Topics Covered
Developer
• Philosophy and Features
• CRUD
• Indexes
• Aggregation Framework
• Data Modeling
• Basic Replication
• Basic Sharding
DBA
• Philosophy and Features
• Basic CRUD
• Basic Aggregation
• Indexes
• Replication (basic and advanced)
• Sharding (basic and advanced)
• Application Administration
• Server Administration
Topic: Philosophy and Features

• Subtopics
• Performance
• JSON
• BSON (basics)
• Fault Tolerance (concepts)
• Disaster Recovery (concepts)
• Horizontal Scaling (concepts)
• The Mongo Shell
 Topic: CRUD

• Subtopics
• Create (insert*, save*, createCollection)
• Read (find; uses 0-2 parameters*)
• Update (uses 2 parameters*)
• Delete (remove*)

* May use an options document as an additional parameter

Topic: Data Modeling (Dev only)

• Subtopics
• Embedding
• References
• Document Growth (MMAPv1)
• Modeling one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-many relationships
• Modeling for atomic operations
• Modeling tree structures
 Topic: Indexing (And
performance, for the Dev exam)
• Subtopics
• Single Key Indexes
• Compound Indexes
• Multi-Key Indexes
• Mechanics
• Performance
• (Storage engines, for the dev exam)
 Topic: Aggregation

• Subtopics
• Pipeline
• Operators
• Memory Usage
• Behavior specific to sort, skip, limit
 Topic: Replication

• Subtopics
• Configuration
• Oplog (just concepts for the dev exam)
• Write Concern
• Read Preference
• Elections
• Failover
• Deployment to Multiple Data Centers
 Topic: Sharding

• Subtopics
• Components
• When to Shard
• Balancing
• Shard Keys
• Hashed Shard Keys
Topic: Application Administration

• Subtopics
• Data Files (mostly MMAPv1, but also WiredTiger)
• Journaling
• Authentication
• Authorization
Topic: Server Administration

• Subtopics
• Performance Analysis
• Storage Engines
• Diagnostics & Debugging
• Maintenance
• Backup
• Recovery
 Preparing for the Exam

• “about” pages
• https://university.mongodb.com/exams/C100DBA/about
• https://university.mongodb.com/exams/C100DEV/about
• These pages contain the rules, topics
• Includes Study Guide
• “exam” page
• https://university.mongodb.com/exams
• Includes study materials
Preparing for the Exam
(continued)
• MongoDB Documentation
• https://docs.mongodb.org/manual/
• Release notes:
• https://docs.mongodb.org/manual/release-notes/3.0/
• The Definitive MongoDB Guide
• http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028031.do
• Came out in May, 2013
• version is MongoDB 2.4
 Preparing for the Exam
(continued)
• Our glossary
• http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/glossary/
• Server + server tools + `--help`
• e.g. `mongostat --help`
• Most important tool: the Exam Study Guide
• URL’s for may; must be signed up for the appropriate exam
• https://university.mongodb.com/exam/C100DEV/2016_May/guide
• https://university.mongodb.com/exam/C100DBA/2016_May/guide
 Practice Quiz

• https://www.research.net/r/PRZ8CXH
• 10 questions
• You have 15 minutes to take it, then we will review.
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