Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Platform Architect I Exam Prep

The "Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Platform Architect I" course is designed to prepare candidates for the Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Platform Architect I Exam. This course covers all key objectives, ensuring that students gain the knowledge and skills necessary to define and manage an organization’s Anypoint Platform strategy effectively.

Course Highlights:

Explaining Application Network Basics (7%):

• Identify and differentiate between technologies used to implement API-led connectivity.

• Understand the role and characteristics of web APIs and how to assign APIs to tiers based on ownership, focus, and rate of change.

• Learn about the capabilities and high-level components of Anypoint Platform.

Establishing Organizational and Platform Foundations (10%):

• Advise on establishing a Center for Enablement (C4E) and measure its success using key performance indicators (KPIs).

• Understand the structure and benefits of MuleSoft Catalyst.

• Compare Identity Management and Client Management options on Anypoint Platform.

• Identify data residency requirements for different types of data.

Designing and Sharing APIs (10%):

• Identify dependencies between an API, its specification, implementation, and clients.

• Learn to create and publish reusable API-related assets using API specifications and Anypoint Platform components.

• Understand how to manage API versioning and mapping strategies between API data models.

Designing APIs Using System, Process, and Experience Layers (12%):

• Assign APIs to appropriate layers of API-led connectivity based on business processes, ownership, and rate of change.

• Recommend approaches for relating API data models to backend systems based on specific requirements.

Governing Web APIs on Anypoint Platform (17%):

• Manage API instances and environments in API Manager and apply appropriate API policies for non-functional requirements.

• Secure web APIs using suitable API policies for different tiers and understand API policy enforcement options.

• Explain OAuth 2.0 relationships involving Anypoint Platform, external Identity Providers, Business Groups, and API clients.

Architecting and Deploying API Implementations (11%):

• Use auto-discovery to link API implementations to API instances managed with API Manager.

• Understand requirements for using Anypoint Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and compare hosting and management options for runtime planes.

• Employ unit and integration tests using MUnit and automate building, testing, and deployment in a DevOps environment.

Deploying API Implementations to CloudHub (11%):

• Describe scenarios for using Object Store (OS) with CloudHub and select appropriate CloudHub worker sizes and configurations.

• Predict reliability and performance characteristics of apps deployed to CloudHub and understand differences between Shared and Dedicated Load Balancers.

• Integrate CloudHub with customer-owned Amazon VPCs and on-premises data centers, avoiding single points of failure.

Meeting API Quality Goals (10%):

• Design and differentiate between scenarios using OS or caching, and select resilience strategies to guard against failures.

• Understand when horizontal scaling benefits API response time and throughput.

Monitoring and Analyzing Application Networks (12%):

• Identify Anypoint Platform components that generate monitoring and alerting data.

• Describe metrics collected for API invocations and define alerts for key metrics across all layers of API-led connectivity.