Salesforce - Priscilla Hong

• Content: 40 multiple-choice questions and up to five non-scored questions
• Time allotted to complete the exam: 70 minutes (time allows for unscored questions)
• Passing score: 70%
• Version: Exam questions align to the Spring '24 release
• Registration fee: US$75, plus applicable taxes as required per local law
• Retake fee: Free
• Delivery options: Proctored exam delivered onsite at a testing center or in an online environment; click here for information on scheduling an exam.
• References: No hard-copy or online materials may be referenced during the exam.
• Prerequisite: None

Exam Guide

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.