MuleSoft MCIA-Level-1 Exam Topics

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

Resources

• ARC: INT Module 5
• ARC: INT Module 7
• ARC: INT Module 9
• ARC: INT Module 10

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

Resources

• ARC: INT Module 2
• ARC: INT Module 3
• ARC: INT Module 4
• ARC: INT Module 5
• ARC: INT Module 7

• For a given organization and their preferences and constraints, select the most appropriate Anypoint Platform deployment option.
• Design parts of an integration solution using any SOA-based integration approach.
• Identify the information that should be included in any integration solution architecture document.
• Simplify a large-scale enterprise-wide integration architecture so that it can be effectively communicated to semi-technical stakeholders.
• Identify the persistence mechanism and durability used for watermarks in different Mule runtime deployment options.
• Identify integrations scenarios when to use batch.
• Design for short or long retries using reconnection strategies.
• Identify common and distinguishing features and usage scenarios for CloudHub DLBs and public CloudHub LBs.

Resources

• ARC: INT Module 1
• ARC: INT Module 3
• ARC: INT Module 7
• ARC: INT Module 8

• Recognize requirements that are best addressed using transactions (single-resource and XA).
• Define transaction considerations where needed in a solution design including the requirement for an external transaction coordinator.
• Specify the connectors that can participate in the different types of transactions.
• Recognize the purpose of various fault-tolerance strategies for remote calls.
• Design parts of an integration solution using general batch-oriented integration or ETL to/from files or databases.
• Determine if horizontal scaling will help a Mule application meet its performance targets.

Resources

• ARC: INT Module 5
• ARC: INT Module 7
• ARC: INT Module 8
• ARC: INT Module 11
• ARC: INT Module 12
• ARC: INT Module 13
• ARC: INT Module 14

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

Resources

• ARC: INT Module 8
• ARC: INT Module 9
• ARC: INT Module 12
• ARC: INT Module 13
• ARC: INT Module 14

• 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 the requirements that would require the use of domain-level connectors.
• Specify when a Mule application would require persistence and select an appropriate persistence solution.
• Identify possible failures when a component (such as an API client) invokes a remote component (such as an API implementation).

Resources

• ARC: INT Module 2
• ARC: INT Module 3
• ARC: INT Module 4
• ARC: INT Module 8
• ARC: INT Module 10
• ARC: INT Module 12

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

Resources

• ARC: INT Module 3
• ARC: INT Module 7
• ARC: INT Module 8
• ARC: INT Module 15
• ARC: INT Module 16

• Identify the Anypoint Platform components where various types of API-related assets and artifacts are maintained or published.
• Recognize the advantages and disadvantages of storing and managing properties in properties files in Mule applications.
• For a given API or integration, identify the steps that need to be taken in order for testing to occur.

Resources

• ARC: INT Module 6
• ARC: INT Module 7
• ARC: INT Module 10

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

Resources

• ARC: INT Module 6
• ARC: INT Module 7
• ARC: INT Module 10

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

Resources

• ARC: INT Module 7
• ARC: INT Module 8
• ARC: INT Module 9