MuleSoft Certified Developer - Level 1 (Mule 4)

Content

Explaining Application Network Basics

• Explain MuleSoft’s proposal for closing the IT delivery gap
• Describe the role and characteristics of the “modern API”
• Describe the purpose and roles of a C4E
• Define and describe the benefits of API-led connectivity and application networks
• Define and correctly use the terms API, API implementation, API interface, API consumer, and API invocation
• Describe the basics of the HTTP protocol and characteristics of requests and responses
• Describe the capabilities and high-level components of Anypoint Platform for the API lifecycle
• DEV:FUN4 Module 1
• DEV:FUN4 Module 2

Designing and Consuming APIs

• Describe the lifecycle of the “modern API”
• Use RAML to define API resources, nested resources, and methods
• Identify when and how to define query parameters vs URI parameters
• Use RAML to define API parameters, requests, and responses
• Use RAML to define reusable data types and format independent examples
• Read a RAML spec and formulate RESTful requests with query parameters and/or headers as appropriate
• DEV:FUN4 Module 3
• DEV:DIY4 Exercise 3-1 and 4-1

Accessing and Modifying Mule Events

• Describe the Mule event data structure
• Use transformers to set event payloads, attributes, and variables
• Write DataWeave expressions to access and modify event payloads, attributes, and variables
• Enrich Mule events using target parameters
• DEV:FUN4 Module 6
• DEV:DIY4 Exercise 6-1, 7-1, and 7-2
• Enriching Data with Target Parameters

Structuring Mule Applications

• Parameterize an application using property placeholders
• Define and reuse global configurations in an application
• Break an application into multiple flows using private flows, subflows, and the Flow Reference component
• Specify what data (payload, attributes, variables) is persisted between flows when a Flow Reference is used
• Specify what data (payload, attributes, variables) is persisted between flows when a Mule event crosses a connection boundary
• Specify what data (payload, attributes, variables) exists in a flow before and after a call in the middle of a flow to an external resource
• DEV:FUN4 Module 7
• DEV:DIY4 Exercise 7-1 and 7-2

Building API Implementation Interfaces

• Manually create a RESTful interface for a Mule application
• Generate a REST Connector from a RAML specification
• Describe the features and benefits of APIkit
• Use APIkit to create implementation flows from a RAML file
• Describe how requests are routed through flows generated by APIkit
• DEV:FUN4 Module 4
• DEV:FUN4 Module 8
• DEV:DIY4 Exercise 4-1

Routing Events

• Use the Choice router to route events based on conditional logic
• Use the Scatter-Gather router to multicast events
• Validate data using the Validation module
• DEV:FUN4 Module 9
• DEV:DIY4 Exercise 9-1

Handling Errors

• Describe the default error handling in a Mule application
• Define a custom global default error handler for an application and identify in what situations it will be used
• Compare and contrast how the On Error Continue and On Error Propagate scopes work
• Create one or more error handlers for a flow
• Use the Try scope to specify error handlers for one or more event processors
• Describe the data structure of the Mule Error object
• Map errors to custom application errors
• DEV:FUN4 Module 10
• DEV:DIY4 Exercise 10-1

Transforming Data with DataWeave

• Write DataWeave scripts to convert JSON, XML, and Java data structures to different data structures and data types
• Use DataWeave functions
• Define and use DataWeave variables, functions, and modules
• Define and use custom data types
• Apply correct DataWeave syntax to coerce data types
• Apply correct DataWeave syntax to format strings, numbers, and dates
• Call Mule flows from a DataWeave script
• DEV:FUN4 Module 11DEV:DIY4 Exercise 11-1

Using Connectors

• Retrieve data from a Database using the Database connector
• Create parameterized SQL queries for the Database connector
• Retrieve data from a REST service using HTTP Request or a REST Connector
• Use a Web Service Consumer connector to consume SOAP web services
• Use the Transform Message component to pass arguments to a SOAP web service
• List, read, and write local files using the File connector
• List, read, and write remote files using the FTP connector
• Use the JMS connector to publish and listen for JMS messages
• DEV:FUN4 Module 4
• DEV:FUN4 Module 8
• DEV:FUN4 Module 12
• DEV:DIY4 Exercise 4-1, 8-1, 12-1, and 12-2

Processing Records

• List and compare and contrast the methods for processing individual records in a collection
• Explain how Mule events are processed by the For Each scope
• Use the For Each scope to process records
• Explain how Mule events are processed by the Batch Job scope
• Use a Batch Job with Batch Steps and a Batch Aggregator to process records
• Use the Scheduler component to trigger a flow
• Use connector listeners to trigger flows
• Describe the features, benefits, and process to use watermarking
• Describe the features, benefits, and process to use automatic watermarking vs. manual watermarking
• Use connectors with automatic watermarking capabilities
• Persist data between flow executions using the Object Store
• DEV:FUN4 Module 12
• DEV:FUN4 Module 13
• DEV:DIY4 Exercise 13-1

Debugging and Troubleshooting Mule Applications

• Use breakpoints to inspect a Mule event during runtime
• Install missing Maven dependencies
• Read and decipher Mule log error messages
• DEV:FUN4 Module 6
• DEV:FUN4 all WTs
• DEV:DIY4 Exercise 6-1 and Walkthrough
• DEV:DIY4 all exercises
• Deploying and Managing APIs and Integrations
• Package Mule applications for deployment
• Deploy applications to CloudHub
• Use CloudHub properties to ensure deployment success
• Create and deploy API proxies
• Connect an API implementation to API Manager using autodiscovery
• Use policies, including client ID enforcement, to secure an API
• Create SLA tiers and apply SLA based policies
• DEV:FUN4 Module 5
• DEV:DIY4 Exercise 5-1 and 5-2
• Configuring API Autodiscovery in a Mule 4 Application

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