Updating Recommendations

Author: kruti-m

articles/cosmos-db/mongodb/vcore/how-to-connect-mongoshell.md

@@ -16,27 +16,27 @@ ms.date: 02/05/2024
 
 [!INCLUDE[MongoDB vCore](../../includes/appliesto-mongodb-vcore.md)]
 
-MongoDB Shell (Mongosh), is a JavaScript and Node.js REPL environment for interacting with MongoDB deployments. It's a popular community tool to test queries and interact with the data in your Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB database.
+MongoDB Shell (Mongosh), is a JavaScript and Node.js environment for interacting with MongoDB deployments. It's a popular community tool to test queries and interact with the data in your Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB database.
 
 ## Prerequisites
-
+Here are some pre-requisites 
 - An existing Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore cluster.
-- Install the MongoShell from the community site.
-- Ensure you are setting up the necessary environment variables post installation for your operating system
-- Ensure you have set the firewall settings to allow the machine to connect. Follow the guidelines for [configuring the firewall for Azure CosmosDB](../../../cosmos-db/how-to-configure-firewall.md)
+- An installed version of the MongoShell from the community site.
+- Please ensure you're setting up the necessary environment variables post installation for your operating system
+- Please ensure you have set the firewall settings to allow the machine to connect. Follow the guidelines for [configuring the firewall for Azure CosmosDB](../../../cosmos-db/how-to-configure-firewall.md)
     - You can choose to allow requests from your current IP, requests from cloud services or requests from virtual machines - specific IP Ranges
 
 ![GIF of Firewall Settings update for MongoDB Vcore](media/connect-using-mongoshell/firewall-settings.gif)
 
-If you accidentally open all the ports you will be warned before saving the changes.
+If you accidentally open all the ports, you'll be warned before saving the changes.
 
 ## Connect using Mongo Shell (Mongosh)
 
 To add your Azure Cosmos DB cluster to Mongo shell, perform the following steps:
 1. Retrieve the connection information for your Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore using the instructions [here](quickstart-portal.md#get-cluster-credentials).
 
 ![GIF for getting connection string](./media/connect-using-mongoshell//getting-connectionstring-from-portal.gif)
-Once you have the connection string you can either 
+Once you have the connection string, you can either 
 - Have the shell prompt you to enter the password or
 - Provide the password as a part of the connection string 
 
@@ -50,23 +50,23 @@ Your connection string would look like this:
     ```
     "mongodb+srv://<username>@<servername>.mongocluster.cosmos.azure.com/?tls=true&authMechanism=SCRAM-SHA-256&retrywrites=false&maxIdleTimeMS=120000"
     ```
-Here is an example of how the command looks like : 
+Here's an example of how the command looks like: 
     ```
     mongosh "mongodb+srv://[email protected]/?tls=true&authMechanism=SCRAM-SHA-256&retrywrites=false&maxIdleTimeMS=120000
     ```
 ![GIF for connecting by entering password](./media/connect-using-mongoshell/mongo-shell-connect.gif)
 
-Once you provide the password and are successfully authenticated you will notice some warning stating *"This server or service appears to be an emulation of MongoDB"*
-This can be ignored. Its just shell way of notifying that you are not connection to an emulation of MongoDB. Since it is an Azure as a platform as a service offering this is expected. 
+Once you provide the password and are successfully authenticated, you'll notice some warning stating *"This server or service appears to be an emulation of MongoDB"*
+The warning can be ignored. It's the shell's way of notifying that you aren't connection to an emulation of MongoDB. When it's an Azure as a platform as a service offering this is expected. 
 
 **B. By providing the password as a part of the connection string**
 
-Alternately you can also use a connection string with the password in which case the format looks something like this
+Alternately you can also use a connection string with the password in which case the format looks something like this.
 ```
 mongosh "mongodb+srv://<SERVERNAME>.mongocluster.cosmos.azure.com/?tls=true&authMechanism=SCRAM-SHA-256&retrywrites=false&maxIdleTimeMS=120000" --username "<USER>" -password "<PASSWORD>"
 ```
 
-Here is an example of how the command looks like : 
+Here's an example of how the command looks like: 
 ```
  mongosh "mongodb+srv://mongodbvcoretesting.mongocluster.cosmos.azure.com/?tls=true&authMechanism=SCRAM-SHA-256&retrywrites=false&maxIdleTimeMS=120000" --username "testuser" -password "******"
 ```