| Identify the roles, responsibilities, and lifecycle of a integration project |
17% |
- Identify the common reasons that IT integration projects frequently fail.
- Define the IT delivery gap and describe MuleSoft's approach to closing it.
- Describe the characteristics and roles of an API-led IT delivery model that emphasizes both production and consumption.
- Describe the common delivery methodologies for integration projects.
- Identify key DevOps practices and tools for building, testing, deploying, and delivering integration solutions.
- Identify and describe the steps of the design, implement, and management stages of MuleSoft's recommended product-centric API lifecycle.
- Describe the roles and responsibilities within a typical MuleSoft integration project team.
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| Recognize and interpret essential integration concepts and terminology |
20% |
- Distinguish between Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS).
- Identify the types of virtualization, computing, and storage infrastructure required by enterprise systems and describe the principles of system scalability.
- Classify and describe common networking protocols used in system communication.
- Recognize the differences between common data formats (for example, XML, YAML, and JSON) used in transformations and configuration files.
- Define and describe the core concepts of API and enterprise system security.
- Identify and describe the HTTP components that enable RESTful web services.
- Define and correctly use the terms API implementation, API proxy, API interface, API client/consumer, and API invocation.
- Identify and classify RESTful, SOAP, AsyncAPI, and GraphQL APIs.
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| Recognize common integration problems, use cases, and technical solutions |
17% |
- Classify and describe the characteristics of common enterprise systems.
- Classify and describe the tradeoffs of legacy and modern integration approaches.
- Given a complex business problem, identify the fundamental integration use cases that can deliver an end-to-end business solution.
- Describe the purpose and function of the different classes of integration technologies.
- Identify the types of integration technologies that are most suitable to realize different integration use cases and business scenarios.
- Deconstruct an integration solution into its integration system constituents.
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| Explain the common technical complexities and patterns in integration development |
18% |
- Describe the differences between the request-reply, one-way, multicast, batch, and stream interaction patterns.
- Explain the differences between the aggregation, orchestration, and choreography composition patterns.
- Describe the purpose of an API specification and the benefits of following a design-first approach to API development.
- Describe and compare observability approaches for integration solutions including logs, metrics, and tracing.
- Design MuleSoft applications using common features of core connectors.
- Describe the differences between cloud, hybrid, and on-premise deployment architectures.
- Describe the differences and tradeoffs between monolithic and microservices application architectures.
- Describe the difference between a service mesh and an API gateway.
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| Describe the components and benefits of Anypoint Platform for system integration |
18% |
- Identify the primary components of Anypoint Platform and their benefits for system integration.
- Identify and describe the common characteristics of popular Anypoint Connectors for connecting to software applications, databases, and protocols.
- Identify the components and describe the benefits of the Anypoint Platform runtime planes and control planes.
- Describe the MuleSoft-hosted and customer-hosted deployment options for Anypoint Platform.
- Describe the uses and benefits of the Anypoint Platform development tools and languages for integration developers and DevOps teams.
- Describe and classify the types of reusable assets in Anypoint Exchange that form the building blocks of integration solutions.
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| Describe the components and benefits of Anypoint Platform for API management |
10% |
- Identify the primary components of Anypoint Platform and their benefits for API management.
- Identify how MuleSoft products realize the goals of full lifecycle API development and Universal API Management (UAPIM).
- Explain the advantages of API-led connectivity with Anypoint Platform over other integration and API management approaches.
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| Official Information |
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https://trailheadacademy.salesforce.com/certificate/exam-mule-foundations---Mule-101 |
