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Working with MongoDB

There are often times that you will be called upon in your journey to assist in the testing of a new technology. In this hands-on lab, you will be installing MongoDB. Once it has been installed, you will be bulk inserting data to be used by your Dev team for testing.

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Level

Intermediate

Duration

1h 0m

Last updated

Sep 02, 2025

Challenge

Install MongoDB version 4.0

Add the YUM repository for the repo as sudo:

sudo su

cat << EOF > /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb-org-4.0.repo
[mongodb-org-4.0] 
name=MongoDB Repository 
baseurl=https://repo.mongodb.org/yum/redhat/7/mongodb-org/4.0/x86_64/ 
gpgcheck=1 
enabled=1 
gpgkey=https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-4.0.asc 
EOF

Install and start MongoDB:

yum install -y mongodb-org

service mongod start

Challenge

Insert the test data located in /home/cloud_user/data/cities.csv
1. As the regular user, run the mongoimport command:
```
mongoimport -d cities -c cityinfo --type CSV --file '/home/cloud_user/data/cities.csv' --headerline
```
Challenge

Validate that the data has the required entries
1. This is done from the mongo shell:
```
mongo
```
```
use cities
```
```
db.cityinfo.find({State:"GA"})
```
  This should return four records.
2. Exit the mongo shell.
3. Exit the server.

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