Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Platform Integration Architect Exam Guide

Contents

About the Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Platform Integration Architect Exam
Audience Description: Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Platform Integration Architect
Purpose of This Exam Guide
About the Exam
Exam Outline
Recommended Training and Resources
Salesforce Certification Candidate Code of Conduct 
Maintaining Your Salesforce Certification

About the Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Platform Integration Architect Exam

The Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Platform Integration Architect Exam is designed for individuals who have experience leading Anypoint Platform implementations to ensure quality and operationalization of solutions.

The Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Platform Integration Architect is able to drive and be responsible for an organization’s Anypoint Platform implementation and the technical quality, governance (ensuring compliance), and operationalization of integration solutions.

The Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Developer certification is a recommended prerequisite for the Salesforce MuleSoft Platform Integration Architect credential, but it is not required.

Audience Description: Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Platform Integration Architect

Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Platform Integration Architect candidates have the knowledge, skills, and experience to:

• Create the high-level design of integration solutions and guide implementation teams on the choice of Mule components and patterns to use in the detailed design and implementation.
• Select the deployment approach and configuration of Anypoint Platform with any of the available deployment options (MuleSoft-hosted or customer-hosted control plane and runtime plane).
• Design Mule applications for any of the available deployment options of the Anypoint Platform runtime plane.
• Apply standard development methods covering the full development lifecycle (project preparation, analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and support) to ensure solution quality.
• Advise technical teams on performance, scalability, reliability, monitoring, and other operational concerns of integration solutions on Anypoint Platform.
• Design reusable assets, components, standards, frameworks, and processes to support and facilitate application programming interface (API) and integration projects.

Typical job roles of a Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Platform Integration Architect candidate may include the following positions, which focus on designing enterprise integration solutions and require prior experience in developing and deploying non-trivial Mule applications.

• Solution Architects
• Technical Architects
• Senior Developers

Purpose of This Exam Guide

This exam guide is designed to help you prepare for the Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Platform Integration Architect Exam. This guide provides information about the target audience, the recommended training and documentation, and a complete list of exam objectives. Salesforce highly recommends a combination of on-the-job experience and self-study to maximize your chances of passing the exam.

About the Exam

Read on for details about the Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Platform Integration Architect Exam.

• Content: 60 multiple-choice questions and up to five non-scored questions
• Time allotted to complete the exam: 120 minutes (time allows for unscored questions)
• Passing score: 70%
• Version: Exam questions align to the Spring '24 release
• Registration fee: US$400, JPY 60,000, plus applicable taxes as required per local law
• Retake fee: $200, JPY 60,000, plus applicable taxes as required per local law
• Delivery options: Proctored exam delivered onsite at a testing center or in an online environment; find more information on scheduling an exam here.
• References: No hard-copy or online materials may be referenced during the exam.
• Prerequisite: None

This exam may contain up to five additional unscored questions to gather performance data. Unscored questions are randomly integrated and have no impact on your final exam result.

Exam Outline

The Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Platform Integration Architect Exam measures a candidate’s knowledge and skills related to the following objectives.

Initiating integration solutions on the Anypoint Platform: 8%

• Differentiate between functional and non-functional requirements for integration solutions.
• Select features of Anypoint Platform for designing and managing web and event-driven application programming interfaces (APIs).
• Select deployment options of the Anypoint Platform control plane and runtime plane.

Designing for the runtime plane technology architecture: 15%

• Analyze the mode of operation of a Mule runtime cluster that differentiates it from other deployment options.
• Design integration solutions deployed to CloudHub to address specific requirements using CloudHub's network features.
• Choose Mule runtime domains and domain-shared configuration only for those requirements that clearly benefit from their capabilities.
• Design Mule applications making effective use of the implications of the Mule 4 class loader isolation of Mule modules.
• Describe the characteristics and implications of the Mule 4 reactive event processing model.

Designing architecture using integration paradigms: 10%

• Create high-level integration architectures using API-led Connectivity.
• Create high-level integration architectures using web APIs and HTTP.
• Create high-level integration architectures using event-driven APIs and message brokers.
• Design Mule applications and integration solutions using common messaging patterns and technologies.

Designing and developing Mule applications: 15%

• Select among available options for setting Mule application properties.
• Select and use fundamental features available to all Mule applications.
• Design Mule applications using core routers available to all Mule applications.
• Describe the fundamental features of the Salesforce Connector.
• Design Mule applications using common features of core connectors.
• Select and use the available sources of metadata in the Transform Message component.
• Design Mule applications and integration solutions using a Common/Canonical Data Model.
• Correctly apply methods for validating data in Mule applications.

Designing automated tests for Mule applications: 5%

• Design unit test suites using MUnit and Studio's related features.
• Identify test requirements and scenarios that are best addressed using integration testing or performance testing.

Designing integration solutions to meet persistence requirements: 10%

• Design Mule applications using Virtual Machine (VM) queues and the Anypoint VM Connector in all deployment options.
• Design Mule applications using Object Stores (OSs), the OS Connector, and OS services in all deployment options.
• Design Mule applications and integration solutions using stateful components that may be configured with an OS.

Designing integration solutions to meet reliability requirements: 8%

• Select alternatives to traditional transactions (local or XA) where appropriate and beneficial.
• Recognize the purpose and characteristics of Until Successful scope, reconnection strategies, and redelivery policies.
• Differentiate between disaster recovery and high availability and the basic approaches to achieving either in all deployment options.
• Design Mule applications and integration solutions using local and XA transactions for all Mule connectors that support them.

Designing integration solutions to meet performance requirements: 7%

• Design Mule applications and integration solutions to meet performance and capacity goals.
• Design Mule applications using available streaming features in Mule.
• Design Mule applications to process large sequences/streams of messages.

Designing integration solutions to meet security requirements: 8%

• Design secure access to the Anypoint Platform control plane and APIs.
• Design secure edge access using Anypoint Security.
• Analyze and counteract potential security vulnerabilities of Mule applications.
• Recognize the audit logging capabilities of Anypoint Platform.

Applying DevOps practices and operating integration solutions: 14%

• Create the high-level design of continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipelines for Mule applications using MuleSoft-provided Maven plugins.
• Identify the features and characteristics for automating interactions with Anypoint Platform.
• Design the logging configurations and options of Mule applications in all deployment options.
• Identify the features and characteristics of Anypoint Monitoring in all deployment options.

Recommended Training and Resources

We recommend a combination of hands-on experience, training course completion, Trailhead trails, and self-study in the areas listed in the Exam Outline section of this exam guide.

To continue developing your MuleSoft skill set, visit Trailhead Academy to enroll in expert-led courses.

The Trailhead Academy courses recommended for this exam include:

• Anypoint Platform Architecture: Integration Solutions (ARC730)

To review online Documentation, Tip Sheets, and User Guides, search for the topics listed in the Exam Outline section of this guide and study the information related to those topics. You can also access Documentation, Tip Sheets, and User Guides through Salesforce Help.

Salesforce Certification Candidate Code of Conduct

At Salesforce, Trust is our #1 value. Protecting the security of Salesforce Certifications is up to all of us. As a participant in the Salesforce Certification Program, you’re required to review and accept the terms of the Salesforce Certification Program Agreement and Code of Conduct at the beginning of each exam.

Maintaining Your Salesforce Certification

There is no required maintenance for the Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Platform Integration Architect certification at this time. Continued learning is encouraged through the Trailblazer Community, Trailhead, and Trailhead Academy.

Bookmark these useful resources for maintaining your credentials.

• • Overall Maintenance Requirements
  • Certification Maintenance Schedule
  • Verify Your Certification Status
  • Certification Expiration Overview