MuleSoft Training and Certification

Our course content is designed in line with the various certifications in Mulesoft.

MCD - Integration and API Associate

Building Application Networks with Anypoint Platform

• Various issues and problems faced in Information Technology.
• Benefits of Application network
• Build an application network using API-led connectivity
• Web services and APIs
• Explore API directories and portals
• Make calls to secure and unsecured APIs

• Components of Anypoint Platform
• Describe the role of each component in building application networks
• Navigate Anypoint Platform
• Locate APIs and other assets needed to build integrations and APIs in Anypoint Exchange
• Build basic integrations to connect systems using flow designer

• Define APIs with RAML, the Restful API Modeling Language
• Mock APIs to test their design before they are built
• Make APIs discoverable by adding them to Anypoint Exchange
• Create API portals for developers to learn how to use APIs

• Define Mule applications, flows, messages, and message processors
• Use Anypoint Studio to create flows graphically
• Build, run, and test Mule applications
• Use a connector to connect to databases
• Use the graphical DataWeave editor to transform data
• Create RESTful interfaces for applications from a RAML file
• Connect API interfaces to API implementations

• Describe the options for deploying Mule applications
• Use properties in Mule applications so they can be easily moved between environments
• Deploy Mule applications to CloudHub
• Use API Manager to create and deploy API proxies to CloudHub
• Restrict access to API proxies

Building Applications with Anypoint Studio

• Log message data
• Debug Mule applications
• Read and write message properties
• Write expressions with Mule Expression Language (MEL)
• Create variables

• Create and reference flows and subflows.
• Pass messages between flows using the Java Virtual Machine (VM) transport
• Investigate variable persistence through subflows and flows and across transport barriers
• Encapsulate global elements in separate configuration files
• Explore the files and folder structures of Mule projects

• RESTful web services with and without parameters
• RESTful web services that have RAML definitions
• Consume SOAP web services
• Use DataWeave to pass parameters to SOAP web services

• Describe the different types of exception strategies
• Handle messaging exceptions in flows
• Create and use global exception handlers
• Specify a global default exception strategy

• Route messages based on conditions
• Multicast messages
• Filter messages
• Validate messages

• DataWeave expressions for basic XML, JSON, and Java transformations
• Store DataWeave transformations in external files
• DataWeave transformations for complex data structures with repeated elements
• Coerce and format strings, numbers, and dates
• Use DataWeave operators
• Define and use custom data types
• Call MEL functions and Mule flows from DataWeave transformations

• Connect to SaaS applications
• Connect to files
• Poll resources
• Connect to JMS queues
• Discover and install connectors not bundled with Anypoint Studio

• Use the For Each scope to process items in a collection individually
• Use the batch job element (EE) to process individual records
• Trigger batch jobs using polls
• Use batch jobs to synchronize data from legacy databases to SaaS applications

API Design Associate (RAML 1.0) Certification

Designing APIs

• Common web API formats including SOAP, RPC, and REST
• REST API architecture
• Rules for retaining REST principles in APIs
• Describe design-first approach for REST APIs

• Different categories and actions for a REST API
• Convert categories to resources
• Select HTTP methods to support the actions on the categories

• API development lifecycle
• MuleSoft's API-led connectivity approach
• Navigation of Anypoint Platform
• The API design lifecycle with Anypoint Platform

Defining APIs with the RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML)

• Use RAML 1.0 to create API definitions
• Define resources and methods in RAML API definitions
• Specify URI parameters for necessary resource methods

• Describe response structure in HTTP methods
• Use status codes in HTTP responses
• Add error handling and caching information to HTTP responses
• Select and specify the types of content returned in HTTP responses

• Add documentation and description nodes to RAML definitions
• Use the mocking service to create API endpoints
• Use the API Console to test API endpoints

• Create API Portals for learning about and testing APIs
• Customize API Portals with themes
• Publish API definitions to the Anypoint Exchange for discovery
• Gather feedback from API consumers

• Create datatypes and their properties for resources
• Create examples for datatypes
• Include datatypes and examples in resource methods
• Create scenarios in API Notebook to manipulate data using datatypes and examples

• Create and reference resource types patterns for reusability
• Use traits to modularize methods

• Use libraries for greater API compose ability.
• Use overlays to internationalize resources
• Use extensions to promote portability to test APIs in multiple environments

• Define API security requirements
• Use security schemes to apply resource and method level policies
• Define custom security schemes for APIs
• Apply an OAuth2.0 external provider policy to resource methods

• Describe hypermedia
• Simplify API discoverability using hypermedia
• Use hypermedia to enhance API responses
• Modify API definitions to generate state-specific client responses in resource methods

• Explain when and when not to version APIs
• Describe the methods for versioning APIs
• Document changes in new API versions using shared API Portals
• Deprecate older versions of APIs

Integration Professional Certification

Team Development

• Use a software project management tool
• Manage dependencies

• Maintain Mule source code
• Develop with best practices

• Create a CI job
• Trigger the builds
• Automate deployments

• Create acceptance criteria
• Fail and pass tests
• Refactor test cases
• Refactor Mule applications

Advanced Application Development

• Use the Mule API
• Create customtransformers, processors, and beans

• Enrich data with Mule
• Create scalable parallel processing in Mule

• Understand SEDA architecture
• Analyze threading profiles

• Impact design with clustering
• Cache outbound requests
• Work with object stores

• Implement one-way SSL
• Implement two-way SSL

The MCA Solution design specialist certification

Architectural Styles and Patterns

• Challenges for enterprise integration
• Articulate MuleSoft’s architectural approaches
• Describe the case study used in the course

• Define important course terminology
• Evolution and principles of SOA
• Evolution of ESBs
• Types of design patterns
• Recognize different types of design patterns
• Describe patterns important for enterprise integration

Integration Application Design

• Create high-level API designs following REST principles
• Categorize APIs following the API-led connectivity approach
• Common pitfalls in RESTful API design
• Components of Anypoint Platform support the API lifecycle

• Documenting software architectures
• Architectural viewpoints and their elements
• Goals of planning for demand and capacity
• Fundamental approaches to high availability in Anypoint Platform
• CloudHub technology architecture

Implementation Patterns

• Mule runtime technology architecture
• Main components of Mule applications
• Processing strategies available to Mule applications
• Factors in designing a new Mule application
• Approaches to modularizing Mule applications
• Sketch a DevOps and CI/CD approach for Mule applications

• Define reliability
• Factors influencing reliable integration solutions
• High availability features in CloudHub
• High availability features in Mule runtime clusters
• Transaction management in Mule applications
• Persistency approaches in Mule runtimes
• Reliability patterns in Mule applications

• Batch and real-time processing in Mule applications
• Options for handling large numbers and sizes of messages
• Design and tune Mule applications for performance, throughput and low latency

• Recognize security requirements
• Approaches to identity management and authentication
• Describe elements of message integrity and confidentiality
• List API security principles
• Security features in Anypoint Platform
• Purpose feature of CloudHub VPCs
• SSL modes
• Various aspects of a hardened Mule runtime