MCIA-Level-1 Exam Information and Guideline
MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect - Level 1
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• Format: Multiple-choice, closed book
• Length: 60 questions
• Duration: 120 minutes (2 hours)
• Pass score: 70%
• Language: English
A MuleSoft Certified Developer – Integration and API Associate (Mule 3) should be able to successfully
work on basic Mule 3 projects with guidance and supervision. The MCD – Integration and API
Associate (Mule 3) exam validates that a developer has the required knowledge and skills to design,
build, test, debug, deploy, and manage basic APIs and integrations: moving from Anypoint Platform to
Anypoint Studio and back. Certified candidates should be able to:
• Use MuleSoft-hosted Anypoint Platform to take a basic API through all the steps of its lifecycle:
design, build, deploy, manage, and govern.
• Use Anypoint Studio to build, test, and debug basic integrations and API implementations.
• Connect to a range of resources — including databases, files, web services, SaaS applications,
and JMS queues.
• Perform basic data transformations using DataWeave.
• Control message flow and handle errors.
• Process batch records.
Explaining application network basics Resources
• Explain MuleSoft’s proposal for closing the IT delivery gap.
• Describe the role and characteristics of the “modern API.”
• Describe the purpose and roles of a Center for Enablement (C4E).
• Define and describe the benefits of API-led connectivity and
application networks.
• Define and correctly use the terms API, API implementation, API
interface, API consumer, and API invocation.
• Describe the basics of the HTTP protocol and the characteristics of
requests and responses.
• Describe the capabilities and high-level components of Anypoint
Platform for the API lifecycle.
• DEV: FUN3 Module 1
• DEV: FUN3 Module 2
Designing and consuming APIs
• Describe the lifecycle of the “modern API.”
• Use RAML to define API resources, nested resources, and methods.
• Identify when and how to define query parameters vs URI
parameters.
• Use RAML to define API parameters, requests, and responses.
• Use RAML to define reusable data types and format-independent
examples.
• Read a RAML spec and formulate RESTful requests with query
parameters and/or headers as appropriate.
• DEV: FUN3 Module 3
• DEV: DIY3 Exercise 3-1 and 4-1
Accessing and modifying Mule messages
• Describe the Mule message data structure.
• Use transformers to set message payloads, message properties, and
flow variables.
• Write MEL expressions to access and modify message payloads,
message properties, and flow variables.
• Enrich Mule messages using the Message Enricher.
• DEV: FUN3 Module 6
• DEV: DIY3 Exercise 6-1
Structuring Mule applications
• Parameterize an application using property placeholders.
• Define and reuse global configurations in an application.
• Break an application into multiple flows using private flows, subflows,
and the Flow Reference component.
• Specify what data (payload, message properties, flow variables) is
persisted between flows when a Flow Reference is used.
• Specify what data (payload, message properties, flow variables) is
persisted between flows when a Mule message crosses a transport
boundary.
• Specify what data (payload, message properties, flow variables)
exists in a flow before and after a call in the middle of a flow to an
external resource.
• DEV: FUN3 Module 7
• DEV: DIY3 Exercise 7-1 and 7-2
Building API implementation interfaces
• Manually create a RESTful interface for a Mule application.
• Describe the features and benefits of APIkit.
• Use APIkit to create implementation flows from a RAML file.
• Describe how requests are routed through flows generated by APIkit.
• DEV: FUN3 Module 4
• DEV: DIY3 Exercise 4-1
Routing messages
• Use the Choice router to route messages based on conditional logic.
• Use the Scatter-Gather router to multicast messages.
• Use Filters to filter Mule messages.
• Validate data using the Validation module.
• DEV: FUN3 Module 10
• DEV: DIY3 Exercise 10-1 and 10-2
Handling errors
• Describe the default exception strategy in a Mule application.
• Define a custom global default exception strategy for an application
and identify in what situations it will be used.
• Define exception strategies for flows.
• Combine multiple catch exception strategies in a choice exception
strategy.
• DEV: FUN3 Module 9
• DEV: DIY3 Exercise 9-1 and 9-2
Transforming data with DataWeave
• Write DataWeave scripts to convert JSON, XML, and Java data
structures to different data structures and data types.
• Use DataWeave operators.
• Define and use custom data types.
• Apply correct DataWeave syntax to coerce data types.
• Apply correct DataWeave syntax to format strings, numbers, and
dates.
• Call Mule flows from a DataWeave script.
• Call global MEL functions from a DataWeave script.
• DEV: FUN3 Module 11
• DEV: DIY3 Exercise 11-1
Using Connectors
• Retrieve data from a Database using the Database connector.
• Retrieve data from a REST service using HTTP Request.
• Use a Web Service Consumer connector to consume SOAP web
services.
• Use the Transform Message component to pass arguments to a
SOAP web service.
• List, read, and write local files using the File connector.
• List, read, and write remote files using the FTP connector.
• Use the JMS connector to publish and listen for JMS messages.
• DEV: FUN3 Module 4
• DEV: FUN3 Module 8
• DEV: FUN3 Module 12
• DEV: DIY3 Exercise 4-1, 8-1, 12-1, and 12-2
Processing records
• List and compare and contrast the methods for processing individual
records in a collection.
• Explain how Mule messages are processed by the Foreach scope .
• Use the Foreach scope to process records.
• Explain how Mule messages are processed in a Batch job.
• Use a Batch element with Batch Steps, Batch Filters, and a Batch
Commit to process records.
• Use the Poll component to trigger a flow.
• Describe the features, benefits, and process to use watermarking.
• Configure watermarks in the Poll scope.
• Persist data between flow executions using the Object Store.
• DEV: FUN3 Module 12
• DEV: FUN3 Module 13
• DEV: DIY3 Exercise 13-1
Debugging and troubleshooting Mule applications
• Use breakpoints to inspect a Mule message during runtime.
• Install missing dependencies and drivers to a Mule project.
• Read and decipher Mule log error messages.
• DEV: FUN3 Module 6
• DEV: FUN3 all WTs
• DEV: DIY3 Exercise 6-1
• DEV: DIY3 all exercises
Deploying and managing APIs and integrations
• Package Mule applications for deployment.
• Deploy applications to CloudHub.
• Use CloudHub properties to ensure deployment success.
• Create and deploy API proxies.
• Connect an API implementation to API Manager using
autodiscovery.
• Use policies, including client ID enforcement, to secure an API.
• Create SLA tiers and apply SLA based policies