Ultimate Mulesoft Certified Platform Architect Course - MCPA

Explore API terminology and the MuleSoft API led connectivity model, clarifying API, API client, API consumer, and API implementation, and explain the three-layer architecture: system, process, and experience APIs.

Demonstrates mapping API terminology to the Anypoint platform, showing API interface, API, implementation, consumer and client roles, and how design center, exchange, and runtime manager enable deployment and access control.

Adopt an application network operating model that centralizes IT to build reusable assets and self-discoverable APIs for fast business consumption.

Master API design and development, runtime hosting, operations, management, and consumer engagement with the Anypoint platform, including backend integration, fault tolerance, scalability, monitoring, discovery, and self-service documentation.

Explore the main Anypoint platform components—design center (API designer, flow designer, Anypoint studio), management center, exchange, and connectors—along with runtime services, API manager, analytics, and fabric.

Learn how the C4 center for enablement bridges central IT and app development, enforces API-led connectivity, drives self-service reusable assets, and accelerates delivery speed.

Explore how MuleSoft hosted control and runtime planes operate in public cloud and VPC setups, including shared environments, cloud hub load balancer, IP whitelisting, and a dedicated load balancer.

Explore how a MuleSoft hosted control plane pairs with a customer hosted runtime plane, including bare on-prem installations and any point fabric options.

Explains six possible configurations of customer hosted control plane and runtime plane, including on-premise and cloud versions, and PCF option; guides architects to choose best-fit combinations for each project.

Explore a pictorial decision chart to evaluate data and metadata location, security and compliance, cost, time, and infrastructure architecture, guiding you to on-premises, cloud, or hybrid deployment options.

Demonstrates configuring an organization structure with multiple business groups and environments, and managing access and permissions across components using access management and custom roles.

Understand identity management and client management on the Anypoint platform, including single sign-on, external providers, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML 2.0, connected apps, and audit logging.

Explore identity management, client management, connected apps, and audit logging on the Anypoint platform. Learn how to configure OpenID Connect and Saml 2.0 identity providers, client providers, and connected apps.

Identify APIs for three connectivity layers, mark reusable ones, and publish APIs and assets for reuse, focusing on functional architecture and nonfunctional requirements via a sales order scenario.

Compare fine grained versus coarse grained APIs within a three-layer architecture, and see how separate system layer APIs for item, customer, and location improve maintainability, deployability, and scalability.

explains a three-layer api solution (experience, process, system) with soap over http, json rest, and file interfaces to create sales orders, validate external ids, and improve reusability.

Design and publish APIs in the MuleSoft design center by creating RAML fragments for request, response, and examples, then publish them to the exchange with versioning and security constraints.

Learn to document APIs with Anypoint platform using API notebooks and API consoles, manage RAML definitions, versioning, and exchange content, and publish suitable experience-layer APIs to the public developer portal.

Explore testing a RAML-based API with the API console in Anypoint studio and endpoint studio, review RAML versioning in Exchange, and learn notebooks and public portal publishing.

Learn to enforce non-functional requirements with the Anypoint platform, applying API manager policies for security, performance, and SLA targets. Explore proxy versus implementation enforcement across the three layers.

Learn how api policies enforce non-functional requirements such as rate limiting between api client and api implementation, with templates and definitions, and distinguish api endpoint from api proxy endpoint.

Learn how Anypoint API manager hosts and manages MuleSoft and external APIs, applies out-of-the-box and custom policies, stores API definitions, and uses alerts to monitor performance from an admin console.

Demonstrates enforcing API policies on the create sales order endpoint, linking API manager with runtime manager, auto discovery, and endpoint with proxy versus basic endpoint setups.

Explore the out-of-the-box policies in the Anypoint platform API manager, including CORS, client enforcement, authentication, threat protection, transformation, troubleshooting, and rate limiting.

Explore how to create, upload, and enforce custom API policies in the Anypoint platform, including pre and post processing and the policy chain concept.

Explore the http caching policy for server-side caching in the api manager, cache http responses for get or head requests using a configurable key, size, ttl, and invalidate headers.

Map policy requirements to RAML definitions to show how client id enforcement shapes http headers and authorization, and update RAML with policy rights and non-functional requirements for the exchange.

Explore how the endpoint security edge enforces edge policies at the dmz, serving as the first defense and applying policies to API groups across customer hosted and cloud hub deployments.

Explore api versioning strategies on Anypoint platform, emphasizing backward compatibility, semantic versioning with major, minor, and patch, and versions appear in urls, endpoint definitions, and api manager, following C4 guidelines.

Differentiate enterprise versus bounded context data models and describe how data types exchange across api clients and implementations, with anti-corruption layers for cross-context calls and publishing on exchange design center.

Explore asynchronous api invocation patterns, including polling, callbacks, and webhooks with correlation id, and learn how to manage state with object stores or databases.

Explore http caching at http layer, serving api responses with a cache key to reduce backend calls, and using safe methods and headers like cache-control and etag to manage freshness.

learn how http methods influence retries and idempotency, distinguishing idempotent methods (get, head, options, put, delete) from non-idempotent ones (post, patch), and implement safeguards like unique request IDs.

Explore optimistic concurrency control for HTTP-based REST resources using ETag and If-Match headers to prevent stale writes and enforce preconditions in updates.

Understand autodiscovery and registration of API implementations with API manager, gatekeeper enforcement, and Cloud Hub integration using connectors in Mule runtimes.

Cloud Hub offers a scalable, available MuleSoft hosted platform on AWS for Mule runtime applications, with Linux EC2 workers up to eight and auto scaling, JVM, and Route 53 DNS.

Cloud Hub load balancers route API traffic to mule applications via shared and dedicated load balancers, forwarding http and https requests to 8081/8082 with TLS termination and internal VPC mappings.

Set timeouts as the primary defense to fail fast and protect performance, aligning per-call timeouts with a 200 ms to 500 ms SLA across system, process, and experience layers.

Implement API retry strategies by distinguishing transient from permanent errors, apply limited retries on idempotent methods (get, put, delete, head, options), and configure timeouts and HTTP error handling in mule.

Explore fallback APIs for fault-tolerant order processing, employing timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, and until successful scope with exception strategies to validate external IDs and proceed with sales orders.

Explore parallel API invocation by running primary and fallback APIs concurrently to reduce response times for critical, high-risk calls in exceptional cases, noting the added network load.

Use a client-side cache as a fallback when API calls fail, with keys like customer, item, or location IDs, and prefer slightly stale responses under http rules (get, head, options).

Explain the cqrs pattern and event sourcing, showing how separate command and query models with independent data sources and near real time synchronization boost scalability in api driven architectures.

Explore an event-driven architecture for an ecommerce logistics site. A router ingests events from retail, mobile, and point of sale sources and routes them to warehouse, financial, and CRM systems.

Explore when to use event-driven architecture, with an event router for decoupled, fanout-capable integrations, and how to design for durability, asynchronous processing, and exactly once processing and ordering.

Learn how to integrate event-driven architecture with API-led connectivity, assigning events to the correct API layer (experience, process, system) and enforcing consumption from the lower tires for robust integrations.

Learn how Anypoint MQ, MuleSoft's multi-tenant cloud messaging service, provides REST API access, role- and token-based controls, async queues and exchanges, and durable, fifo messaging with dead letter queues.

Discover the api development lifecycle from design to production using the api first approach, and leverage Anypoint platform components and devops practices to design, test, deploy, and manage apis.

Build a strong DevOps foundation by aligning development and operations, automating tests and deployments via CI/CD, standardizing git repositories and artifact repositories like Nexus, and planning rollback for production.

Promote api manager assets, api runtime manager configurations, and api implementations across environments using the Anypoint platform, while enforcing per-environment consumers and separate client credentials for governance and security.

Promote APIs across environments in API Manager by selecting source and target environments, choosing policies and alerts to include, and understanding that contracts cannot be promoted, and use environment-specific consumers.

Demonstrates manually promoting Mule apps from sandbox to other environments in Runtime Manager, selecting artifacts and preserving runtime and properties, with notes on CI/CD automation via Mule Maven plugin.

Learn how automated testing remains universal across MuleSoft connectivity, focusing on resilience, API specifications, and the balance of white-box unit tests and black-box integration tests deployed in staging environments.

Design automated api-centric integration tests driven by the api specification and any point exchange documentation, including functional, non-functional (nfr), and performance tests.

Learn vertical and horizontal scaling on the Anypoint platform by adjusting Cloud Hub worker sizes and scale-out nodes, with zero downtime deployment and auto-scaling policies.

Master autoscaling in cloud hub, resizing api workers 1–4 on 80%/20% cpu thresholds with a 30-minute cooldown, and apply throttling, caching, and api proxy considerations guided by C4 analysis.

Discover the current application architecture with Anypoint visualizer, identify duplicate interactions, and enforce governance by highlighting API-led connectivity violations; analyze impact and compare dev, staging, prod, and documentation.

Explore the Anypoint visualizer to view the entire application network, traffic flows, and policies across apps in runtime manager and api manager, with real-time memory, CPU, throughput, and error insights.

Learn to assign layers and tags in the Anypoint visualizer to group APIs by experience, process, and system, create custom layers, and use tags like sales order.

Learn to assign visualizer layers and tags programmatically via properties in runtime manager, Maven POM, or Anypoint CLI during deployment for your apps.

Discover Anypoint monitoring, a consolidated endpoint monitoring solution with rich metrics, dashboards, alerts, log aggregation, and region-aware data storage that surpasses manager and runtime manager.

Learn multiple ways to enable endpoint monitoring for cloud hub apps: via UI settings, environment-based toggles, runtime manager properties, Anypoint CLI, and Mule Maven plugin, and consider CPU utilization impact.

Analyze Anypoint analytics to track API invocations with metrics like total invocations, success versus client or server errors by HTTP status codes, and mean response times across APIs and clients.

Leverage endpoint analytics in the Anypoint platform to analyze API invocations by geography, API client, and provider-side response time, with custom charts, dashboards, reports, CSV export, and governance insights.

Explore endpoint analytics in Anypoint Analytics, focusing on API metrics like requests and response times in the API manager, and learn to build dashboards and CSV reports.

Learn how the Anypoint platform generates alerts from metrics like policy violations, API invocation counts, HTTP response codes, and response times, using thresholds over defined time periods to trigger notifications.

Set up and demonstrate alerts on the Anypoint platform across API Manager and Runtime Manager for the Experience Sales Order API, including policy violation and request count alerts.

Demonstrates configuring and managing alerts in the runtime manager, including threshold breaches for cloud hub applications, and how alert augmentation with the API manager ensures platform-wide visibility.