Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Integration Foundations

About the Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Integration Foundations Exam

The Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Integration Foundations Exam is designed for professionals who want to contribute effectively as part of a MuleSoft project team. This certification validates foundational knowledge of integration principles, API-led connectivity, and essential MuleSoft terminology.

Who Should Take This Exam?

This certification is ideal for anyone seeking to build knowledge in:

• Roles, responsibilities, and lifecycle phases of typical integration projects

• Key integration concepts and terminology used by MuleSoft architects and developers

• Common integration challenges, practical use cases, and solutions using MuleSoft technologies

• Core technical complexities of integration development

• Components and benefits of the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform for system integration and API management

Typical job roles include:

• Developers

• Architects

• Project Managers & Technical Project Managers

• Integration Product Owners

• IT Professionals and IT Operations Teams

Exam Details

• Format: 40 multiple-choice questions + up to 5 unscored questions

• Time Allowed: 70 minutes

• Passing Score: 70%

• Exam Version: Spring ’24 Release

• Registration Fee: USD $75 (plus applicable taxes)

• Retake Fee: Free

• Delivery Options: Proctored exam (online or onsite) – [View scheduling details]

• Reference Materials: No external resources allowed during the exam

• Prerequisites: None

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.