Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Integration Foundations Exam Guide

About the Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Integration Foundations Exam
Audience Description: Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Integration Foundations
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 Integration Foundations Exam

The Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Integration Foundations Exam is designed for individuals who have an interest to work as an informed member of a MuleSoft project team, with knowledge of core integration and application programming interface (API)-led connectivity terminology and concepts.

Audience Description: Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Integration Foundations

Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Integration Foundations candidates should have knowledge, skills, and experience in the following areas.

The roles, responsibilities, and lifecycle phases of a typical integration project
Essential integration concepts and terminology used by MuleSoft architects and developers
Common integration problems, their fundamental integration use cases, and the appropriate technologies to solve them
Common technical complexities that are central in integration development
The components and benefits of Anypoint Platform for system integration and API management

Typical job roles of a Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Integration Foundations candidate may include:

Developers
Architects
Project managers
Technical project managers
Integration product owners
IT professionals
IT operations

Purpose of This Exam Guide

This exam guide is designed to help you prepare for the Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Integration Foundations 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

Here are details about the Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Integration Foundations Exam.

Content: 40 multiple-choice questions and up to five unscored questions
Time allotted to complete the exam: 70 minutes
Passing score: 70%
Version: Exam questions align to the Spring '24 release
Registration fee: US$75, JPY ¥10,000, 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; 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 Integration Foundations Exam measures a candidate’s knowledge and skills related to the following objectives. Candidates should have an interest in working as an informed member of a MuleSoft project team. MuleSoft Integration Foundations candidates should have knowledge of core integration and application programming interface (API)-led connectivity terminology and concepts, as well as the components and benefits of Anypoint Platform for system integration and API management.

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.

Recommended Training and Resources

As preparation for this exam, 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.

The self-study materials recommended for this exam include:

Trailmix: Prepare for Your Salesforce MuleSoft Integration Foundations Certification

To review online documentation, tip sheets, and user guides, search for the topics listed in the Exam Outline section of this guide on Salesforce Help and study the information related to those topics.

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

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Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Integration Foundations Exam Guide

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