Course Overview
This course will teach the students what is Cosmos DB and how you can migrate MongoDB and Cassandra workloads to Cosmos DB.
This certification track comes with the following benefits:
- Digital Courseware
- Practice Labs
- 30-Day Azure Pass
- Free Exam Voucher
This Enterprise Skills Initiative Program class is for Microsoft approved clients ONLY. If you are unsure of eligibility, please contact Martha Garron via phone at 603-384-1251 or via email at [email protected].
Key Learning Areas
- Building Globally Distributed Applications with Cosmos DB
- Migrate MongoDB Workloads to Cosmos DB
- Migrate Cassandra DB Workloads to Cosmos DB
Course Outline
Building Globally Distributed Applications with Cosmos DB
This module describes the benefits and architecture of Cosmos DB.
- Cosmos DB overview
- Cosmos DB APIs
- Provisioning Throughput
- Partitioning/Sharding Best Practices
At the end of this module, the students will be able to describe:
- Cosmos DB overview
- Cosmos DB APIs
- Provisioning Throughput
- Partitioning/Sharding Best Practices
Migrate MongoDB Workloads to Cosmos DB
Migrate MongoDB Workloads to Cosmos DB
- Understand Migration Benefits
- Migration Planning
- Data Migration
- Application Migration
- Post-migration considerations
Lab: Migrating MongoDB Workloads to Cosmos DB
- Create a Migration Project
- Define Source and Target
- Perform Migration
- Verify Migration
At the end of this module, the students will be able to:
- Understand Migration Benefits
- Perform Migration Planning
- Perform Data Migration
- Perform Application Migration
- Undertake Post-migration considerations
Migrate Cassandra DB Workloads to Cosmos DB
This module describes the benefits and process of migrating Cassandra DB workloads to Cosmos DB.
- Understand Migration Benefits
- Migration Planning
- Data Migration
- Application Migration
- Post-migration considerations
Lab: Migrating Cassandra DB Workloads to Cosmos DB
- Export the Schema
- Move Data Using CQLSH COPY
- Move Data Using Spark
- Verify Migration
At the end of this module, the students will be able to:
- Understand Migration Benefits
- Perform Migration Planning
- Perform Data Migration
- Perform Application Migration
- Undertake Post-migration considerations
Who Benefits
The primary audience for this course is database developers who plan to migrate their MongoDB or Cassandra DB workloads to Azure using Cosmos DB.
Prerequisites
In addition to their professional experience, students who attend this training should already have the following technical knowledge:
- The fundamental concepts of partitioning, replication, and resource governance for building and configuring scalable NoSQL applications that are agnostic of a Cosmos DB API.