Challenge 1: Translate the Terms — Possible Solution ==================================================================== (a) Table -> Collection (b) Row -> Document (c) Primary Key -> _id (the field MongoDB uses to uniquely identify every document, generated automatically as an ObjectId if you don't supply your own value) (d) Column -> Field WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER ------------------------------ Each MongoDB term plays the exact structural role its relational counterpart plays, just applied to a document instead of a row: a collection groups many documents the way a table groups many rows; a document holds the data for one "thing" the way a row does; a field holds one named piece of data within that thing the way a column does; and _id serves the same uniqueness-guaranteeing purpose a primary key does, just without requiring you to define it yourself.