MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect – Level 1 Sample Questions

An organization’s Anypoint Platform implementation as well as the technical quality, governance, and operationalization of the integration solutions must be manage by a MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect. To translate functional and non-functional requirements into integration interfaces and implementations, an architect must have the knowledge and abilities to collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, according to the MCIA – Level 1 test.The article provides a list of MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect – Level 1 Sample Questions that cover core exam topics including –

•  Configuring and provisioning Anypoint Platform

• Selecting integration styles

• Designing and documenting enterprise integration architecture

• Architecting resilient and performant integration solutions

• Handling events and messages

•  Designing applications with Anypoint Connectors

• Handling integration implementation lifecycles

• Implementing DevOps

• Operating and monitoring integration solutions

Advanced Sample Questions

What is MuleSoft?

• a. A cloud-based integration platform
• b. A database management system
• c. A software development kit (SDK)
• d. A content management system (CMS)

Answer: a. A cloud-based integration platform

Explanation: MuleSoft is a cloud-based integration platform that enables organizations to connect applications, data, and devices across their IT landscape. It provides a wide range of integration tools and capabilities, including data mapping and transformation, connectivity to a variety of systems, and the ability to create and manage APIs. MuleSoft helps organizations streamline their IT operations, improve the efficiency of their data flows, and enable new business opportunities.

What is the role of an API in MuleSoft?

• a. To provide a user interface for applications
• b. To provide a way for applications to communicate with each other
• c. To store data for applications
• d. To process data for applications

Answer: b. To provide a way for applications to communicate with each other

Explanation: An API (Application Programming Interface) is a critical component of MuleSoft. It provides a way for applications to communicate with each other and enables data to be shared and exchanged between systems. APIs define the structure and format of the data that is exchanged, and provide a secure and controlled mechanism for accessing and sharing data. In MuleSoft, APIs can be created and managed using the Anypoint Platform, and can be used to connect to a wide range of systems, including cloud services, databases, and custom applications.

What is the role of MuleSoft Anypoint Studio in a MuleSoft integration solution?

• a. To provide a platform for building and deploying integrations
• b. To provide a way for integrations to communicate with each other
• c. To store data for integrations
• d. To process data for integrations

Answer: a. To provide a platform for building and deploying integrations

Explanation: MuleSoft Anypoint Studio is a development environment for building and deploying MuleSoft integrations. It provides a visual and intuitive interface for designing, testing, and deploying Mule applications, and enables developers to create, test, and debug integrations in a safe and isolated environment. Anypoint Studio also provides a range of tools and features for working with APIs, data mapping and transformation, and error handling, and supports a wide range of programming languages and technologies.

What is the role of the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform in a MuleSoft integration solution?

• a. To provide a platform for building and deploying integrations
• b. To provide a centralized management and governance platform for integrations
• c. To store data for integrations
• d. To process data for integrations

Answer: b. To provide a centralized management and governance platform for integrations

Explanation: The MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is a centralized management and governance platform for MuleSoft integrations. It provides a single view of all integrations and APIs in an organization, and enables administrators to manage and monitor the health and performance of their integrations. The Anypoint Platform provides tools for managing security and access controls, tracking usage and analytics, and automating deployment and management processes. It also provides a repository for storing and sharing reusable assets, such as templates, connectors, and data models.

What is MuleSoft Anypoint Studio?

• A) A Java-based development environment for building Mule applications
• B) A web-based platform for managing Mule applications
• C) A cloud-based integration platform for connecting SaaS and on-premise applications
• D) A graphical tool for designing and testing Mule flows

Answer: A) A Java-based development environment for building Mule applications

Explanation: Anypoint Studio is a Java-based integrated development environment (IDE) that provides a convenient environment for building, testing, and debugging Mule applications.

What is the purpose of the MuleSoft API Gateway?

• A) To provide secure access to APIs
• B) To provide a unified view of all APIs
• C) To provide a centralized way to manage and monitor APIs
• D) All of the above

Answer: D) All of the above

Explanation: The MuleSoft API Gateway provides a centralized way to manage and monitor APIs, as well as secure access to APIs. The API Gateway also provides a unified view of all APIs, making it easier to manage and monitor API usage and performance.

What is the difference between Mule flows and flows in a traditional integration solution?

• A) Mule flows can be deployed on any platform, while traditional integration solutions are tied to specific platforms.
• B) Mule flows can handle any type of data, while traditional integration solutions are limited to specific data types.
• C) Mule flows can be easily changed and updated, while changes to traditional integration solutions require significant effort and downtime.
• D) All of the above.

Answer: D) All of the above

Explanation: Mule flows offer several advantages over traditional integration solutions, including the ability to be deployed on any platform, handle any type of data, and be easily changed and updated. This makes Mule a more flexible and scalable integration solution than traditional integration solutions.

What is the purpose of the Mule ESB?

Answer: To provide a platform for building and integrating APIs and services.

Explanation: Mule ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) is a Java-based solution for connecting applications, data, and devices. It provides a platform for building and integrating APIs and services, making it easier for developers to connect their applications, regardless of the different technologies they use.

Basic Sample Questions

Q1) A multinational corporation runs datacenters across several nations. All business data (but NOT metadata) must be transfer over these private network connections, hence there are interconnections in the private networks connecting these datacenters. The company doesn’t currently make use of AWS in any form. Just now, a strategic choice was made to reduce future IT operations effort and investment to a minimum. Which deployment option(s) for the control plane and runtime plane(s) of the Anypoint Platform best supports this firm in the beginning of this strategic journey in MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect – Level 1?

• A. Anypoint Platform control plane hosted by MuleSoft Numerous AWS regions provide CloudHub Shared Worker Cloud.
• B. Anypoint Platform control plane hosted by MuleSoft runtime plane hosted by the customer across various AWS regions
• C. Anypoint Platform control plane hosted by MuleSoft runtime plane hosted by the customer in every datacenter
• D. Each datacenter hosts a customer-hosted runtime plane of the Anypoint Platform – Private Cloud Edition.

Correct Answer: B

Q2)Some of the assets committed to Anypoint Exchange, like Connectors, Templates, and API specifications, must have their source code maintained. How should a company use its source-code management (SCM) system in this situation in MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect – Level 1?

• A. In order for Anypoint Exchange to fetch source code as needed by developers and give it to Anypoint Studio, organisations need to point Anypoint Exchange to their SCM system.
• B. To centralise versioning and prevent code duplication, businesses need to use Anypoint Exchange as their primary SCM solution.
• C. As long as organisations adhere to the branching and merging technique mandated by Anypoint Exchange, they are free to continue using the SCM system of their choice.
• D. Businesses should continue to utilise their preferred SCM system and store the source code for these asset categories in Anypoint Exchange to support concurrent development, branching, and merging.

Correct Answer: B

Q3)In order to copy financial transaction data from a legacy system into a data warehouse, a company is developing an integration solution (DWH). A daily snapshot of financial transactions, given as a CSV file, must be include in the DWH. There are more than 10 million transactions per day, with notable volume increases during peak shopping times. What integration approach would be the best fit for an integration solution that satisfies the organization’s existing needs in MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect – Level 1?

• A. API-led connectivity
• B. Batch-triggered ETL
• C. Event-driven architecture
• D. Microservice architecture

Correct Answer: D

Q4)To support a new business process, a collection of Mule integration applications is being develop, some of which expose APIs. This could have an effect on a variety of stakeholders. These stakeholders include both technically adept potential users of the Mule apps and APIs and semi-technical users (who comprehend fundamental integration terms and ideas like JSON and XML). How can the project team building the Mule applications and APIs effectively get in touch with these stakeholders utilising Anypoint Platform and the tooling it offers?

• A. Create Anypoint Exchange entries with pages outlining the integration design, including API notebooks (where appropriate) to assist stakeholders in understanding and interacting with the Mule apps and APIs at varying degrees of technical acuity.
• B. Capture information about Mule applications and APIs while the Mule integration flows are active, and then use Anypoint Studio’s Export Documentation functionality to send the stakeholders an HTML version of this information.
• C. Implement Mule apps and APIs using Anypoint Design Center, and grant access to these Design Center projects to diverse stakeholders so they may interact and offer feedback.
• D. Register the multiple Mule applications and APIs using Anypoint Exchange and publish the RAML definitions with the stakeholders so they can be found.

Correct Answer: D

Q5)The following is what a Mule application is planned to accomplish: Read a SalesOrder message from a JMS queue in the first step. A SalesOrder message has a header and a list of SalesOrderLineltems. Step 2: Put each SalesOrderLineItem and the SalesOrder heading into their respective databases in an RDBMS. Step 3: Add a table in a separate RDBMS with the SalesOrder header and the total cost of all its SalesOrderLine items.
No SalesOrder message can be lost, and all SalesOrder-related data in both RDBMSes must always be guaranteed to be consistent. What design decision, including the choice of transactions and step order, satisfies these demands in MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect – Level 1?

• A. 1. Read the JMS message (NOT in an XA transaction) 2. Perform EACH DB insert in a SEPARATE DB transaction 3. Acknowledge the JMS message
• B. 1. Read and acknowledge the JMS message (NOT in an XA transaction) 2. In a NEW XA transaction, perform BOTH DB inserts
• C. 1. Read the JMS message in an XA transaction 2. In the SAME XA transaction, perform BOTH DB inserts but do NOT acknowledge the JMS message
• D. 1. Read the JMS message (NOT in an XA transaction) 2. Perform BOTH DB inserts in ONE DB transaction 3. Acknowledge the JMS message.

Correct Answer: C

Q6) The Anypoint MQ message REQU with a payload containing a variable-length list of request objects is receive by Mule application A. Application A divides the list into distinct objects using the For Each scope and sends each object as a message to an Anypoint MQ queue.
Service S monitors the queue, examines each message separately from every other message, and then sends a reply message to a separate queue.
Application A must construct and publish a response Anypoint MQ message RESP with a payload comprising the list of responses sent by service S in the same sequence as the request objects first submitted in REQU. Application A listens on that response queue. Assume that service S replies to all request messages with successful response messages. What is necessary to ensure that application A may maximise message throughput while also ensuring that the length and order of the lists of objects in RESP and REQU match?

• A. Synchronize all communication involving service S within the For Each scope, ensuring that the order of the request objects in REQU and RESP is maintain.
• B. To guarantee response message order within the For Each scope, use a Scatter-Gather. Configure a persistent object store for the Scatter-Gather.
• C. Track the length of the list and all object indices in REQU, both in the For Each scope and throughout all service-related interactions. When constructing RESP, utilise persistent storage
• D. Send RESP using a list of the responses by utilising an Async scope inside the For Each scope to collect response messages in a separate For Each scope in the order in which they come.

Correct Answer: B

Q7)What MuleSoft-provided Maven plugins may be use to automate in a CI/CD pipeline for Mule applications?

• A. Import data from the API designer, then build, package, perform unit testing, deploy, and publish to Anypoint Exchange.
• B. Build, package, run unit tests, check for test coverage, and deploy
• C. Build, package, run unit tests, release, and integrate tests
• D. Create associated API instances in API Manager and compile, package, unit test, deploy, and do so.

Correct Answer: C

Q8) A combination The Mule application is installed on a Mule 4 runtime cluster that is host by the customer. The JMS connector’s Listener function is used by the Mule application to take inbound messages from a JMS queue. How does the Mule application consume the messages?

• A. Only the primary cluster node consumes all messages, regardless of the Listener operation setting.
• B. Depending on how the JMS provider is configure, either the principal cluster node alone consumes all messages, or ALL cluster nodes consume ALL messages.
• C. No matter how the Listener operation configuration is set up, ALL cluster nodes consume ALL messages.
• D. Depending on how the Listener operation configuration is set up, either every message is devoure by the primary cluster node ALONE or every message is consume by ANY cluster node.

Correct Answer: B

Q9) An existing customer-hosted Mule runtime cluster is being expanded with additional nodes to boost performance. Through a load balancer, API clients are able to access Mule applications that have been deployed to this cluster. What else is necessary to implement this change?

• A. API implementations using an object store must be adjusted to recognize the new nodes and persist to them
• B. A new load balancer must be provisioned to allow traffic to the new nodes in a round-robin fashion
• C. External monitoring tools or log aggregators must be configured to recognize the new nodes
• D. New firewall rules must be configured to accommodate communication between API clients and the new nodes.

Correct Answer: A

Q10) A combination In order to handle orders, the Mule application sends them to a backend system for offline processing. Each order will be delivered to the Mule programme over an HTTPS POST, and it must be instantly acknowledged. The order will be submitted to a backend system after being acknowledged. Orders that are rejected by the backend system and cannot be submitted successfully must be processed manually (outside the backend system). The Mule application can make use of an ActiveMQ broker that already exists when it is deployed to a runtime that is hosted by the customer. The backend system has a history of being unreliable owing to both brief network connectivity problems and extended outages.

What idiomatic (used for their intended purposes) mix of ActiveMQ queues and Mule application components is necessary to guarantee order submission to the backend system automatically while reducing manual order processing?

• A. A scope called On Error ActiveMQ Dead Letter Queue for MuleSoft Object Store manual processing
• B. ActiveMQ Long Retry Queue for Until Successful Component ActiveMQ Dead Letter Queue for Manual Processing
• C. MuleSoft Object Store ActiveMQ is NOT required or used until the component is successful.
• D. a scope for On Error VM without persistence Dead Letter Queue for manual processing in ActiveMQ

Correct Answer: D

Q11)What action can be taken using a JMX agent that has been activated in a Mule application?

• A. View object store entries
• B. Replay an unsuccessful message
• C. Deploy a Mule application
• D. Set a particular log4j2 log level to TRACE

Correct Answer: D

Q12)A retailer is creating a supplier-facing data sharing interface. The interface must enable secure internet-based communication. Additionally, the interface must be compatible with a wide range of vendors’ IT platforms and programming languages. If Anypoint Connectors exist for these interface technologies, what are viable interface technologies for this data exchange that are safe, cross-platform, and internet-friendly?

• A. CSV over FTP YAML over TLS JSON over HTTPS
• B. SOAP over HTTPS IIOP over TLS gRPC over HTTPS
• C. EDIFACT XML over SFTP JSON/REST over HTTPS
• D. XML over ActiveMQ XML over SFTP XML/REST over HTTPS

Correct Answer: C

Q13)What API invocation metrics are available for Anypoint Analytics custom charts’ visualisation?

• A. Request size, request HTTP verbs, response time
• B. Request size, number of requests, JDBC Select operation result set size
• C. Request size, number of requests, JDBC Select operation response time
• D. Request size, number of requests, response size, response time

Correct Answer: D

Q14)A combination For the purpose of synchronising customer data between two systems, the Mule application was create. An IBM mainframe and a Salesforce Marketing Cloud (CRM) instance make up the first system. Both systems have been set up in their customary configurations and must be access using the native protocols that Salesforce and IBM have both given. What interface technologies, assuming there are Anypoint Connectors that implement these interface technologies, are the easiest and most suitable to utilise in this Mule application to communicate with these systems?

• A. IBM: DB access CRM: gRPC
• B. IBM: REST CRM: REST
• C. IBM: CICS CRM: SOAP
• D. IBM: ActiveMQ CRM: REST

Correct Answer: D

Q15)A JMS connector is configure as part of a XA transaction that is waiting for JMS messages to arrive. What does the XA transaction’s timeout attribute mean, and what happens when it runs out?

• A. The amount of time that can occur before the transaction is explicitly end; The transaction is forcibly roll back after the timeout.
• B. How long it takes for old JMS consumer threads to be delete. A new JMS consumer thread is create following the timeout.
• C. The amount of time that can elapse between receiving JMS messages over the same JMS connection. A fresh JMS connection is establish following the timeout.
• D. The amount of time that is permit between committing the transaction and finishing the Mule flow When the timer expires, flow processing results in an error.

Correct Answer: A

Q16) A Batch Job with two Batch Steps (Batch Step 1 and Batch Step 2) can be found in a Mule application. 1000 records make up the payload that the Batch Job receives. How many threads does the Batch Job employ to process records, and how is each Batch Step inside the Batch Job processing records?

• A. Each Batch Job uses SEVERAL THREADS for the Batch Steps Each Batch Step instance receives ONE record at a time as the payload, and BATCH STEP INSTANCES execute IN PARALLEL to process records and Batch Steps in ANY order as fast as possible
• B. Each Batch Job uses SEVERAL THREADS for the Batch Steps Each Batch Step instance receives ONE record at a time as the payload, and RECORDS are process IN PARALLEL within and between the two Batch Steps
• C. Each Batch Job uses a SINGLE THREAD for all Batch Steps Each Batch Step instance receives ONE record at a time as the payload, and RECORDS are process IN ORDER, first through Batch_Step_1 and then through Batch_Step_2
• D. Each Batch Job uses a SINGLE THREAD to process a configure block size of record Each Batch Step instance receives A BLOCK OF records as the payload, and BLOCKS of records are process IN ORDER

Correct Answer: A

Q17)An API is prepare for integration testing after passing unit testing. In all situations, a Client ID Enforcement policy controls the API. What has to be complete before the testing team can begin integrating testing the API in the staging environment?

• A. In order to test the API, they must request access to the Staging environment and get the Client ID and Client Secret for that environment.
• B. To test the API, they must request access to the instance of the API in the staging environment and get a Client ID and Client Secret.
• C. They need to be designate as the API in the Staging environment’s version owner.
• D. They must use the Client ID and Client Secret provided by the API portal in the Staging environment to visit the API portal and create an API notebook.

Correct Answer: C

Q18)What logging feature can be use only with Mule apps deployed to customer-hosted Mule runtimes but NOT with Mule applications deployed to CloudHub in MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect – Level 1?

• A. Changing log4j2 log levels without needing to restart the Mule programme in Anypoint Runtime Manager
• B. To assign specific messages to a unique log category.
• C. To transfer Splunk application log data from Mule
• D. Using a single, shared, and modified log4j2.xml file as a direct reference across many Mule apps.

Correct Answer: B

Q19)In order to help developers start building API implementations with Anypoint Studio, a team would like to establish a project skeleton. This framework ought to encourage the team to consistently apply best practises. To publish the project skeleton, what kind(s) of Anypoint Exchange artifact(s) have to be add to Anypoint Exchange in MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect – Level 1?

• A. A reusable trait definition and RAML archetype to be utilise across API implementations
• B. An individual asset using the standard API implementation
• C. A case study of an API implementation that adheres to recommended practises
• D. A Mule application template that contains the essential elements and the bare minimum of integration logic

Correct Answer: D

Q20)What is necessary in order for an API create using Anypoint Platform components to be maintain and govern (by using API policies) on Anypoint Platform?

• A. In order to publish the API to Anypoint Exchange, a RAML specification of the API must be produce in API Designer.
• B. The API must be publish to Anypoint Exchange, and in order to implement the API, API Manager must provide a corresponding API instance ID.
• C. So that API users can engage with the API, the API must be made available to potential developers via an API site.
• D. The source code for the API implementation has to be enter into a source control management system (such as GitHub)

Correct Answer: A