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  • Common reasons IT integration projects fail
  • Point-to-point sprawl and data silos as integration failure causes
  • Defining the IT delivery gap
  • MuleSoft's approach to closing the IT delivery gap
  • MuleSoft Catalyst three pillars
  • Central IT versus line-of-business IT in the production-and-consumption model
  • Center for Enablement role in a production-and-consumption model
  • Center for Enablement versus traditional Center of Excellence
  • Waterfall versus Agile delivery methodologies
  • Core practices of agile project delivery
  • Scrum, Lean and Kanban as common Agile frameworks
  • MuleSoft Catalyst as an integration delivery methodology
  • DevOps principles and lifecycle phases for integration teams
  • Continuous integration practice and its benefits for Mule projects
  • Apache Maven, source control and reproducible builds for Mule apps
  • MUnit for automated testing of Mule applications
  • Automated deployment of Mule applications across environments
  • Continuous delivery versus continuous deployment
  • Product-centric versus project-centric API delivery
  • Stages of the product-centric API lifecycle and their sequence
  • Designing and simulating an API before implementation
  • Publishing a specification to Exchange for early consumer feedback
  • Implement stage activities from scaffolding to deployment
  • Manage stage activities after an API is deployed
  • API product owner and business stakeholder responsibilities
  • Integration architect role in solution design decisions
  • API designer versus integration developer responsibilities
  • Citizen integrator role and MuleSoft Composer
  • Center for Enablement staffing, setup and core team responsibilities
  • IaaS, PaaS and SaaS definitions and example offerings
  • Provider versus customer responsibilities across cloud service models
  • Choosing a cloud service model for a business need
  • Virtual machines, hypervisors and containers
  • Serverless computing as a compute model
  • Block, file and object storage types
  • Vertical versus horizontal scaling
  • Scalability versus elasticity in cloud infrastructure
  • Classifying common networking protocols by layer and purpose
  • HTTP versus HTTPS and the role of TLS
  • Matching a networking protocol to a communication requirement
  • JSON structure and data types
  • XML elements, attributes and namespaces
  • YAML mappings, sequences and indentation
  • Choosing among JSON, XML and YAML for an integration use case
  • Data formats in Mule application configuration files
  • Format-to-format conversion in DataWeave transformations
  • Confidentiality, integrity and availability security goals
  • Authentication versus authorization in API security
  • Multi-factor authentication for user access
  • Common API credential mechanisms compared
  • OAuth 2.0 token-based delegated authorization
  • Encryption of data in transit versus at rest
  • Digital certificates, PKI and mutual TLS
  • Network perimeter controls for enterprise systems
  • Web services versus APIs
  • Anatomy of HTTP request and response messages
  • HTTP methods and the resource operations they perform
  • Resource URIs, URI parameters and query parameters
  • Content-Type versus Accept and other common HTTP headers
  • HTTP response status code classes and common codes
  • API interface definition and its role in API terminology
  • API implementation and its relationship to the API specification
  • API client or consumer role in an API interaction
  • API invocation and the request-response exchange
  • API proxy as an intermediary between API clients and the backend
  • When to front an existing API with an API proxy
  • REST architectural style characteristics
  • SOAP web services and how they differ from REST
  • GraphQL query model and benefits over REST
  • AsyncAPI and event-driven API classification
  • Choosing an API style for an integration requirement
  • Enterprise application classes by business function
  • Systems of record, engagement and insight
  • SaaS applications versus on-premises enterprise systems
  • Characteristics of legacy and mainframe enterprise systems
  • Legacy versus modern integration approaches
  • Point-to-point integration tradeoffs
  • Centralized ESB and SOA integration tradeoffs
  • Modernizing legacy systems without rip-and-replace
  • Data silos and manual re-entry as integration business problems
  • One-way versus bidirectional data synchronization use cases
  • Data aggregation integration use case
  • Workflow and process automation integration use case
  • Orchestration and data processing integration use case
  • User interface integration use case
  • Decomposing a complex business problem into foundational integration use cases
  • ETL and ELT tools as an integration technology class
  • Enterprise service bus as an integration technology class
  • Integration platform as a service (iPaaS)
  • iPaaS versus full lifecycle API management
  • Purpose and families of integration design patterns
  • Criteria for matching integration technology to a use case
  • Messaging and event streaming for publish-subscribe use cases
  • Citizen integration and when to use MuleSoft Composer
  • Integration system primitives that make up an integration solution
  • Deconstructing an end-to-end business solution into its integration constituents
  • Deconstructing a solution into API-led layers and connectors
  • Request-reply interaction pattern
  • One-way (fire-and-forget) interaction pattern
  • Multicast interaction pattern
  • Batch interaction pattern
  • Stream interaction pattern
  • Synchronous versus asynchronous interaction tradeoffs
  • Choosing an interaction pattern for an integration requirement
  • Aggregation composition pattern
  • Orchestration composition pattern
  • Choreography composition pattern
  • Choosing a composition pattern for a business situation
  • Purpose of an API specification as an API contract
  • API specification languages and the API styles they describe
  • Design-first versus code-first API development
  • Benefits of a design-first, specification-driven approach
  • Mocking an API specification for early consumer validation
  • Reuse and implementation scaffolding from an API specification
  • Observability versus monitoring for integration solutions
  • Logs as an observability signal
  • Metrics as an observability signal
  • Distributed tracing as an observability signal
  • Anypoint Monitoring capabilities for integration observability
  • Choosing logs, metrics or traces for an integration troubleshooting need
  • Core components versus connectors as Mule app building blocks
  • Scheduler versus event-driven sources for starting a flow
  • Cloud, hybrid, and on-premises deployment models compared
  • Tradeoffs between cloud and on-premises deployment
  • Anypoint Platform deployment options mapped to cloud, hybrid, and on-premises
  • Monolithic application architecture characteristics
  • Microservices application architecture characteristics
  • Benefits of microservices compared with a monolith
  • Operational complexity and tradeoffs of microservices
  • Choosing monolithic versus microservices architecture

Identify the primary components of Anypoint Platform and their benefits for system integration

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  • Anypoint Platform purpose and the application network
  • Integration benefits of a unified Anypoint Platform
  • Matching Anypoint components to design, build, deploy and manage needs
  • Anypoint Monitoring versus Anypoint Visualizer
  • Anypoint MQ versus Anypoint Object Store v2

Identify and describe the common characteristics of popular Anypoint Connectors for connecting to software applications, databases, and protocols

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  • Anypoint Connector purpose and benefits in Mule applications
  • Connectors for software applications versus databases versus protocols
  • Connector sources versus operations in a Mule flow
  • HTTP Listener versus HTTP Request in the HTTP Connector
  • Database Connector capabilities for relational databases
  • Salesforce Connector characteristics in Mule integrations
  • Anypoint Connector support categories and licensing

Identify the components and describe the benefits of the Anypoint Platform runtime planes and control planes

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  • Control plane versus runtime plane in Anypoint Platform
  • Mule runtime engine and runtime services in the runtime plane
  • Benefits of separating the control plane from the runtime plane

Describe the MuleSoft-hosted and customer-hosted deployment options for Anypoint Platform

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  • CloudHub as a MuleSoft-hosted runtime option
  • CloudHub versus CloudHub 2.0
  • Anypoint Runtime Fabric as a customer-hosted runtime option
  • Hybrid standalone versus disconnected on-premises Mule runtimes
  • Runtime Manager as the console across deployment targets
  • Anypoint Platform Private Cloud Edition and when to use it
  • Control plane and runtime plane hosting combinations
  • Choosing MuleSoft-hosted versus customer-hosted deployment

Describe the uses and benefits of the Anypoint Platform development tools and languages for integration developers and DevOps teams

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  • RAML and OAS as API specification languages in Anypoint Platform
  • API Designer in Anypoint Design Center
  • Anypoint Studio uses and benefits for Mule application development
  • Anypoint Code Builder uses and benefits for integration developers
  • APIkit role in implementing APIs from specifications
  • DataWeave transformation language purpose and benefits
  • Maven-based CI/CD for building, testing and deploying Mule apps
  • Anypoint CLI and Anypoint Platform APIs for DevOps automation

Describe and classify the types of reusable assets in Anypoint Exchange that form the building blocks of integration solutions

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Anypoint Exchange as a curated catalog of reusable assets

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API specification asset types and their definition formats

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API spec fragments versus API groups

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Connectors as packaged connectivity assets in Exchange

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Templates versus examples as integration starting points

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Policy and ruleset assets for API governance

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  • Anypoint Management Center role in monitoring and securing APIs
  • Anypoint API Manager purpose and benefits for API management
  • Role and benefits of an API proxy in API management
  • API policies applied through API Manager and their benefits
  • Anypoint Exchange for API discovery, sharing and reuse
  • API visibility with Anypoint Monitoring, API Functional Monitoring and Visualizer
  • Universal API Management goals and the API sprawl problem
  • Universal API Management lifecycle stages and their Anypoint products
  • Anypoint products across full lifecycle API development
  • Anypoint API Governance for API quality, security and conformance
  • API Experience Hub for engaging API consumers through portals
  • Anypoint Flex Gateway (Omni Gateway) versus Mule Gateway
  • API-led connectivity versus point-to-point integration
  • Purpose of System, Process and Experience API layers
  • Layer decoupling and change isolation in API-led architecture
  • Reuse of existing APIs to accelerate later projects
  • Application networks and composable API building blocks
  • Unified Anypoint Platform versus fragmented integration and API management tools

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Anypoint Exchange offers two kinds of ready-made Mule projects that save a team from starting an integration from scratch: templates and examples. A template is a packaged integration pattern, built on best practices, that you complete and customize for your own use case. An example is a ready-to-run app that demonstrates how to handle a use case or solution.
Core information
  • Templates and examples are separate asset types in Anypoint Exchange. They sit next to other reusable assets such as connectors, API specifications, DataWeave libraries, and policies.
More details and nuances
  • Templates and examples are packaged and imported the same way. Exchange downloads either one as a .jar file, and Anypoint Studio imports it as a new Studio project. Format does not tell them apart, but purpose does.

Explainer

Anypoint Exchange offers two kinds of ready-made Mule projects that save a team from starting an integration from scratch: templates and examples. A template is a packaged integration pattern, built on best practices, that you complete and customize for your own use case. An example is a ready-to-run app that demonstrates how to handle a use case or solution.
Core information
  • Templates and examples are separate asset types in Anypoint Exchange. They sit next to other reusable assets such as connectors, API specifications, DataWeave libraries, and policies.
More details and nuances
  • Templates and examples are packaged and imported the same way. Exchange downloads either one as a .jar file, and Anypoint Studio imports it as a new Studio project. Format does not tell them apart, but purpose does.