Topics of MuleSoft mcia - Level 1: MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect - Level 1 Exam

Candidates must know the exam topics before they start preparation because it will help them in hitting the core. Our mcia-level-1 practice exams will include the topics discussed in detail:

Configuring Anypoint Platform

• Identify common and distinguishing features and usage scenarios for CloudHub VPCs and public worker cloud.
• Select Anypoint Platform identity management vs client management for the correct purpose.
• Suggest the number of Mule runtimes needed for a Mule application given performance targets and HA requirements.
• Select monitoring options for all available Anypoint Platform deployment options.
• Define a performant and HA deployment architecture for Mule applications in on-prem deployments.
• Configure business groups, roles, and permissions within an Anypoint Platform organization.

Selection Integration Styles

• Recognize scenarios where message correlation is necessary.
• When designing an integration solution, select the most appropriate interface/data technology and interface definition language for all integration interfaces.
• Given a description of an integration problem, identify the most appropriate integration style.
• Design parts of an integration solution using general message-based integration or event-driven architecture (EDA) using message brokers or streaming technologies.

Operating and Monitoring Integration Solutions

• Identify ways of transmitting IDs between components in remote interactions and capture this in the interface design of the remote interaction.
• Identify differences in monitoring and alerting between customer-hosted and MuleSoft-hosted Anypoint Platform.
• Identify metrics and operations exposed by default via JMX.
• Specify the type of metrics for API invocations and API implementations that can be monitored with Anypoint Platform.

DevOps

• Specify the purpose of various MuleSoft products in DevOps and CI/CD.
• Identify differences, advantages, and disadvantages of DevOps based on deployable Mule applications versus container images.
• Specify testing strategies that use both mocking and invoking of external dependencies.
• Formulate an effective source code management strategy including branching and merging.

Handling Events

• Select suitable storage mechanisms for IDs (correlation IDs, message IDs, transaction IDs) in Mule applications deployed to CloudHub or on-premises.
• Predict the runtime load-balancing behavior of messages sent to the public URL of a Mule application deployed to multiple CloudHub workers.
• Identify scenarios in which to use different storage mechanisms including persistent and non-persistent ObjectStore, in-memory ObjectStore, cluster-replicated in-memory OS, hash tables, and disk-persisted OS.
• Predict the runtime behavior of messages queued internally for processing for load balancing or to achieve reliability.
• Use the streaming to handle large payloads within Mule applications.
• Use Mule 4 constructs to make effective use of Enterprise Integration Patterns.

Designing Applications

• For a given Mule 4 connector (Premium, Select, and MuleSoft Certified), identify its purpose, the network protocol it uses, and whether it supports incoming or outgoing types of connections.
• Specify when a Mule application would require persistence and select an appropriate persistence solution.
• Specify the requirements that would require the use of domain-level connectors.
• Identify possible failures when a component (such as an API client) invokes a remote component (such as an API implementation).

Designing Networks

• Match protocols with networking constraints and API layers.
• For a given connector, recognize whether it will typically connect to/from an external -system across organizational boundaries.
• When incoming and outgoing HTTPS connections with mutual authentication are used, identify what certificates are needed in what stores in a different environment.
• Use transport protocols and connectors correctly and coherently when and where applicable.

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Introduction to MuleSoft mcia - Level 1: MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect - Level 1 Exam

A MuleSoft Certified Developer - Level 1 should be able to successfully work on basic Mule 4 projects with guidance and supervision. The exam validates that a developer has the required knowledge and skills to design, build, test and debug, deploy, and manage basic APIs and integrations: moving from Anypoint Integration to Anypoint Studio and back. Certified candidates should be able to:

• Use MuleSoft-hosted Anypoint Integration to take a basic API through all the steps of its lifecycle: design, build, deploy, manage, and govern.
• Connect to a range of resources including databases, files, web services, SaaS applications, and JMS queues.
• Process batch records.
• Perform basic data transformations using DataWeave 2.0.
• Control event flow and handle errors.
• Use Anypoint Studio to build, test, and debug basic integrations and API implementations.