Tracks: MuleSoft Foundations

Identify the roles, responsibilities, and lifecycle of a integration project

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

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

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

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

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

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