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Here are answers for MongoDb course session October 2015, Week 6.

Homework 6.1


Which of the following statements are true about replication in MongoDB? Check all that apply.



  • The minimum sensible number of voting nodes to a replica set is three.
  • MongoDB replication is synchronous.
  • By default, using the new MongoClient connection class, w=1 and j=1.
  • The oplog utilizes a capped collection.



Answer :-

Correct options are


  • The minimum sensible number of voting nodes to a replica set is three.
  • The oplog utilizes a capped collection.




Homework 6.2


Let's suppose you have a five member replica set and want to assure that writes are committed to the journal and are acknowledged by at least 3 nodes before you proceed forward. What would be the appropriate settings for w and j?


  • w=1, j=1
  • w="majority", j=1
  • w=3, j=0
  • w=5, j=1
  • w=1,j=3


Answer :-

Correct option

w='majority', j=1



Homework 6.3


Which of the following statements are true about choosing and using a shard key?



  • You can change the shard key on a collection if you desire.
  • MongoDB can not enforce unique indexes on a sharded collection other than the shard key itself, or indexes prefixed by the shard key.
  • Any update that does not contain the shard key will be sent to all shards.
  • There must be a index on the collection that starts with the shard key.
  • The shard key must be unique


Answer :-

Correct options are


  • There must be a index on the collection that starts with the shard key.

  • Mongo can not enforce unique indexes on a sharded collection other than the shard key itself.

  • Any update that does not contain the shard key will be sent to all shards.




Homework 6.4


You have a sharded system with three shards and have sharded the collections "students" in the "school" database across those shards. The output of sh.status() when connected to mongos looks like this:

mongos> sh.status()
--- Sharding Status ---
  sharding version: {
"_id" : 1,
"minCompatibleVersion" : 5,
"currentVersion" : 6,
"clusterId" : ObjectId("5531512ac723271f602db407")
}
  shards:
{  "_id" : "s0",  "host" : "s0/localhost:37017,localhost:37018,localhost:37019" }
{  "_id" : "s1",  "host" : "s1/localhost:47017,localhost:47018,localhost:47019" }
{  "_id" : "s2",  "host" : "s2/localhost:57017,localhost:57018,localhost:57019" }
  balancer:
Currently enabled:  yes
Currently running:  yes
Balancer lock taken at Fri Apr 17 2015 14:32:02 GMT-0400 (EDT) by education-iMac-2.local:27017:1429295401:16807:Balancer:1622650073
Collections with active migrations:
school.students started at Fri Apr 17 2015 14:32:03 GMT-0400 (EDT)
Failed balancer rounds in last 5 attempts:  0
Migration Results for the last 24 hours:
2 : Success
1 : Failed with error 'migration already in progress', from s0 to s1
  databases:
{  "_id" : "admin",  "partitioned" : false,  "primary" : "config" }
{  "_id" : "school",  "partitioned" : true,  "primary" : "s0" }
school.students
shard key: { "student_id" : 1 }
chunks:
s0 1
s1 3
s2 1
{ "student_id" : { "$minKey" : 1 } } -->> { "student_id" : 0 } on : s2 Timestamp(3, 0)
{ "student_id" : 0 } -->> { "student_id" : 2 } on : s0 Timestamp(3, 1)
{ "student_id" : 2 } -->> { "student_id" : 3497 } on : s1 Timestamp(3, 2)
{ "student_id" : 3497 } -->> { "student_id" : 7778 } on : s1 Timestamp(3, 3)
{ "student_id" : 7778 } -->> { "student_id" : { "$maxKey" : 1 } } on : s1 Timestamp(3, 4)


If you ran the query
use school
db.students.find({'student_id':2000})
Which shards would be involved in answering the query?


  • s0, s1, and s2
  • s0
  • s1
  • s2


Answer :-

Correct option

s1





Homework 6.5 (MongoProc)


Preface to Homework 6.5 (MongoProc)

In this homework you will build a small replica set on your own computer. We will check that it works with MongoProc.

Create three directories for the three mongod processes. On unix, this could be done as follows:

mkdir -p /data/rs1 /data/rs2 /data/rs3
or on Windows:

mkdir \data\rs1 \data\rs2 \data\rs3
Now start three mongo instances as follows. Note that are three commands. The browser is probably wrapping them visually.

Linux and Mac users:

mongod --replSet m101 --logpath "1.log" --dbpath /data/rs1 --port 27017 --smallfiles --oplogSize 64 --fork

mongod --replSet m101 --logpath "2.log" --dbpath /data/rs2 --port 27018 --smallfiles --oplogSize 64 --fork

mongod --replSet m101 --logpath "3.log" --dbpath /data/rs3 --port 27019 --smallfiles --oplogSize 64 --fork
Windows users:

start mongod --replSet m101 --logpath 1.log --dbpath \data\rs1 --port 27017 --smallfiles --oplogSize 64
start mongod --replSet m101 --logpath 2.log --dbpath \data\rs2 --port 27018 --smallfiles --oplogSize 64
start mongod --replSet m101 --logpath 3.log --dbpath \data\rs3 --port 27019 --smallfiles --oplogSize 64
Now connect to a mongo shell and make sure it comes up.

mongo --port 27017
Now you will create the replica set. Type the following commands into the mongo shell:

config = { _id: "m101", members:[
          { _id : 0, host : "localhost:27017"},
          { _id : 1, host : "localhost:27018"},
          { _id : 2, host : "localhost:27019"} ]
};
rs.initiate(config);
At this point, the replica set should be coming up. You can type

rs.status()
to see the state of replication.


Answer :-


All you need to do in this assignment is to follow steps given in question as per your platform type Windows/Mac?linux.

After following all the steps, run mongoproc and click "test" button. If everything worked fine then it will show you message like

Everything looks fine. Three instances of mongodb running.
On Mongoproc