Salesforce-MuleSoft-Developer-I Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Developer (Mule-Dev-201) Questions and Answers

Correct answer is Save the payload from the Database SELECT operation to a variable

Response from HTTP requestwill override the payload and hence response of database SELECT can be lost. Best way to preserve is to assign payload of first operation to variable using TransformMessage.

Process section is must to get compiles. Process section must have one or more processors

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Metadata is stored in application-types.xml flle located under src/main/resources.

Mule 4 applications contain an application-types.xml file, which is where metadata around your data types is stored. For example, if you createa new CSV type, that metadata will be added to this file. This new file is easy to share, commit, and merge when conflicts arise, which enables you to do more metadata-driven development.

MuleSoft Doc Ref : https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/4.3/intro-studio#metadata-storage

Correct answer is Validation modules Is Number operation.

Mule 4 does not use filters anymore. The functionality provided by filters in Mule 3 can be achieved by using the Validation Module.

MuleSoft Doc Ref : https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-manager/2.x/policy-mule3-tutorial-manage-an-api#to-add-the-tier

Stepsto create SLA Tier are as follows:

1) In API Manager, in API Administration, click a version.

2) Check that the API supports resource-level policies: On the API version details page, in Status, click Configure Endpoint, and check that Type is RAML.

3) Choose the SLA Tiers, and click Add SLA Tier. Set up limit on SLA tier

Correct answer is /accounts?account_type=retail&industry=finance

Query parameters are a defined set of parameters attached to the end of a url. They are extensions of the URL that are used to helpdefine specific content or actions based on the data being passed. To append query params to the end of a URL, a ‘?’ Is added followed immediately by a query parameter.

To add multiple parameters, an ‘&’ is added in between each.

Correct answer is Select only Attach Project Sources only

You must keep the Attach Project Sources option selected to be able to import the packaged JAR file back into a Studio workspace.

Deselect the Include project modules and dependencies option.

This option skips bundling the actual modules and external dependencies required to run the Mule application in a Mule runtime engine, creating a lightweight JAR file package that does not include any dependencies specified in the Mule application’s pom.xml file.

The generated JAR file is not a functional deployable archive and cannot be deployed to a Mule runtime engine, but instead offers a way to archive only the source files that make up the Mule application. This is the same as using the -lightWeightPackage flag when packaging using the Mule Maven Plugin and is useful if you want to distribute your project to other Studio installations because it only keeps a reference to all its dependencies. When you import a lightweight package into Studio, all your dependencies are automatically downloaded

MuleSoft Doc Ref : https://docs.mulesoft.com/studio/7.8/import-export-packages

An object store is a facility for storing objects in or across Mule applications. Mule runtime engine (Mule) uses object stores to persist data for eventual retrieval. Internally, Mule uses objectstores in various filters, routers, and other message processors that need to store states between messages.

Object stores are available in all deployment targets. If you deploy your application to CloudHub, you can also use Object Store V2.

Correct answer is Key/value pair in Object store

MuleSoft Documentation reference : https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/4.3/mule-object-stores#use-cases

Attributes are replaced with new attributes from the HTTP Request response.

Attributes include everything apart from Payload/body. For ex: Headers, query parameters, URI parameters.

So, when outbound HTTP request is made, new attributes need to passthe outbound HTTP request and old attributes are replaced.

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Cloudhub exposeservices on port 8081 and override value in http.port with this one .

Sample log in Runtime Manager is below

21:15:53.148 08/08/2021 Worker-0 ArtifactDeployer.start.01 INFO

Listening for connections on 'http://0.0.0.0:8081 '

lookup(String,Any, Number)

This function enables you to execute a flow within a Mule app and retrieve the resulting payload.

It works in Mule apps that are running on Mule Runtime version 4.1.4 and later.

Similar to the Flow Reference component (recommended), the lookup function enables you to execute another flow within your app and to retrieve the resulting payload. It takes the flow’s name and an input payload as parameters. For example, lookup("anotherFlow", payload) executes a flow named anotherFlow.

Correct answeris

lookup( "createCustomerObject", {first: "Aice, last: "Green"})

MuleSoft Documentation Reference : https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/4.3/dw-mule-functions-lookup

URI parameter is basically used to identify a specific resource or resources

* Here we want toupdate details about specific department, so question is asking 'How to use URI parameter' in RAML

* Correct answer is

/departments:

/{deptId}:

patch:

Emptyarray is returned when no rows are matched.

MuleSoft Doc Ref : https://docs.mulesoft.com/db-connector/1.9/database-connector-select

Logs would look like:

INFO 2021-06-09 19:14:56,039[[MuleRuntime].uber.06: [validationtest].batch-job-validationtestBatch_Job-work-manager @6de10f3e] [processor:validationtestFlow/processors/1/route/0/route/0/aggregator/processors/0; event: bfb751e1-9939-11eb-9f69-02053763653a] org.mule.runtime.core.internal.processor.LoggerMessageProcessor:

[

“\”A\””,

“\”C\””,

“\”D\””

]

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INFO 2021-06-09 19:15:02,486 [[MuleRuntime].uber.06: [validationtest].batch-job-validationtestBatch_Job-work-manager @6de10f3e] [processor: validationtestFlow/processors/1/route/0/route/0/aggregator/processors/0; event: bfb751e1-9939-11eb-9f69-02053763653a] org.mule.runtime.core.internal.processor.LoggerMessageProcessor: [

“\”E\””

]

Batch aggregator value is 3. Hence in first time it will print [“A”, “C”, “D”] and in next iteration it will print [ “E” ]

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Correct answer is [ “E” ]

Lets revise few concepts RAML which can help us to find the answer of this question.

URI Parameters

Lets have a look at below example.

/foos:

/{id}:

/name/{name}:

Here, the braces { } around property names define URI parameters. They represent placeholders in each URI and donot reference root-level RAML file properties as we saw above in the baseUri declaration. The added lines represent the resources /foos/{id} and /foos/name/{name}.

Query Parameters

Now we'll define a way to query the foos collection using query parameters.Note that query parameters are defined using the same syntax that we used above for data types:

/foos:

get:

description:ListallFoosmatching query criteria,ifprovided;

otherwise list allFoos

queryParameters:

name?:string

ownerName?:string

Based on the above information , below is the only option which defines storeid as uri parameter and department as query parameter.

/{storeId}:

get:

queryParameter:

department:

Correct answer is as below. On complete phase only has access to batch job result statistics and payload is not available.

TotalRecordsProcessed:3

SuccessfulRecords:3

FailedRecords:0

On Complete

During this phase, you can optionally configure the runtime to create a report or summary of the records it processed for the particular batch job instance. This phase exists to give systemadministrators and developers some insight into which records failed to address any issues that might exist with the input data.

Sample output is as below

Mule Ref Doc : https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/4.3/batch-processing-concept#on-complete

Correct answer is A global element

Global error handlers are to be created in global element .

Quick note to remember here is Global error handlers come in to pictureonly when there are no error handlers specified as flow level.

Steps to create Global error handler

1) Click Global Elements to open Global Configuration Elements. Global Elements is located below the Studio canvas

2) In Global Configuration Elements,click Create to open the Choose Global Type dialog

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3) From the dialog, select Global Configuration -→ Configuration, and then click OK to open the Configuration dialog.

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4) From the select Configuration dialog, select allErrorHandler for the Default Error Handler field, and click OK.

Option 3 is the only corect answer as it concatenates payload with String.

Below option wont work.

#["The payload is " ++ payload]

Concatenation function expects both arguments to be string. As the question sayspayload is json object , this will throw error while running it. You can try this in Anypoint Studio and you will get the same result which I mentioned.

hence correct answer is

The payload is: #[payload]

This kind of questions are best solved with filtering technique. Key thing to note here is XML attributes are always access by @ notation. So in thisexample orderId can be accessed as @OrderId which makes option 3 and option 4 false. Now difference in optin and option 2 is in mapping of lineItemPrice. Correct syntax to format a String in Numbse is value.price as Number. Hence option 2 is correct

Scatter-Gather sends the event to each routes concurrently. Hence both route in this example will start in parallel. So total time to complete processing is 40 seconds

The Scatter-Gather component is a routing event processor thatprocesses a Mule event through different parallel processing routes that contain different event processors. Each route receives a reference to the Mule event and executes a sequence of one or more event processors. Each of these routes uses a separate thread to execute the event processors, and the resulting Mule event can be either the same Mule event without modifications or a new Mule event with its own payload, attributes, and variables. The Scatter-Gather component then combines the Mule events returned by each processing route into a new Mule event that is passed to the next event processor only after every route completes successfully.

The Scatter-Gather component executes each route in parallel, not sequentially. Parallel execution of routes can greatly increase the efficiency of your Mule application and may provide more information than sequential processing.

Mule Ref Doc : https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/4.3/scatter-gather-concept

Correct answer is as below as concatenation operation worksonly with string and not with the objects. In this case payload is object.

"You called the function '++' with these arguments:

1: String ("INFO")

2: Object ({student: {name: "Anay" as String {class: "java.lang.String"},age

Correct answer is MAJOR

MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes, MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards compatible manner, and PATCH version when you make backwards compatible bug fixes.

For details refer to this documentation : https://semver.org/

Note that private flow has error scope defined as On Error Continue . So when error occurs in private flow , it is handled by this On Error Continue scopewhich sends success response back to main flow and does not throw back an error. So main continues normally and payload is set to Success - main flow.

Hence correct answer is Success - main flow

1) HTTP listener received request

2) The Flow Referencecalls the child flow

3) The Is Number validator creates an Error Object because the payload isn’t an integer. Child Flow execution stops

#[error.description] = “payload is not a valid INTEGER value”

#[error.errorType] = VALIDATION:INVALID_NUMBER

4) The OnError Continue handles the errorThe payload is set to “Error – Sub Flow”

5) “Error – Sub Flow” is returned to the main flow as if the child flow was a success. The Set Payload is executed. The payload is reset to “Success – Finished Main Flow”

6) “Success– Main Flow” is returned to the requestor in the body of the HTTP request. HTTP Status Code: 200

As you can see, in the above example, because the error was caught by an On Error Continue scope in the child flow (RED in, GREEN out) when the Mule Message returns to the parent flow, the parent flow knows none-the-different that there was a failure because the on error continue returns a 200 success message. Note that because, to the mainFlow, the childFlow appeared to succeed, the processing of mainFlow resumed after the flow reference.

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Correct answer is ${training.host}

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How to Configure Properties to Mule 4.X Platform?

1) Go to /src/main/resources project directory.

2) Create aconfiguration file with the name configuration.yaml inside the newly created config folder.

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3) Go To Project > Global Element > Create > General >select the configuration.yaml file create in step- 2)

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4) To verify develop a simple flow with HTTP listener which has above entries. Put the logger that prints the values on console.

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5) Additional info: Similarly, when you want to access this port in DataWeave you need to use p function

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Correct answer is Specify throttling , security and other policies

MuleSoft Doc Ref : https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-manager/2.x/api-gateway-capabilities-mule4

API Gateway isresponsible for below functions.

1) Determine which traffic is authorized

2) Meter the traffic

3) Logs transaction

4) Apply throttling and other policies (Not specifying. These are specified in API Manager)

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This is a trcik question. On complete phase pyalod consists of summary of records processed which gives insight on which records failed or passed. Hence option 4 is correct answer

MuleSoft Documentation Reference : https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/4.3/batch-processing-concept#on-complete

Correct answer is API manager

Correct answer is Patients from year 2021.

The thing to note here is that year is not a query parameter and not the uri parameter. Hence it will filter all the patients and return the ones for whom year is 2021

1. SetPayload “Start”

2. 'Is Balnk String' Creates an Error object with #[error.description] =“String is not blank”

3. Default Error Handler catches and Propagates error

4. 'On Error Propogate' is 'RED IN RED OUT'. It Returns Status Code : 500 & #[error.description]

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Correct answer is String is not blank. Because validation component will throw an error as payload is not blank.

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option 3 is the correct syntz to access application properties

Correct answer is 8 as events are processed in parallel in case of scatter gather router

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Here’s specifically what is happening here:

1) Payload is successfully set to “Before”

2) Is null validation is used which will pass the message only if payload is null. In this case as payload is not null, it creates an Error Object. Flow execution stops

#[error.description] = “Validation error”

3)Because no error handler is defined, the Mule default error handler handles the error

4) “Validation error” is the error message returned to the requestor in the body of the HTTP request with HTTP Status Code: 500

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The APIkit Router is a key message processor that validates requests against the provided definition, enriches messages (for example by adding default values to the messages) and routes requests to a particular flow. Also, the Router raises errors messages if errors occurs while routing, validating or processing the user request.

Correct answer is Merges elements of two lists (arrays) into a single list

MuleSoft Doc Reference : https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/4.3/dw-core-functions-zip

First step in creating Modern API is to create an API specification and get feedback from stakeholders so that any future issues can be identified at early stage thereby reducing overall delivery time

Organization Administrators can approve/revoke/delete SLA tier access requests via API Manager only

QUESTIONNO: 132

What is not true about application properties?

A. Application properties can be encrypted

B. Application properties can be overridden with system properties

C. Application properties can be defined in .yaml file only

D. Application properties provide easier way to manage configurable values

Answer: C

Application properties can be defined in .yaml or in .properties file.

MuleSoft Doc Ref :https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/4.3/configuring-properties#supported_files

Web Services Description Language. WSDL is used to describe SOAP based web services

PUT replaces the original version of the resource, whereas the PATCH method supplies a set of instructions to modify theresource

Correct answer isArray.

Flatten turns a set of subarrays (such as [ [1,2,3], [4,5,[6]], [], [null] ]) into a single, flattened array (such as [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, [6], null ]).

This example defines three arrays of numbers, creates another array containing those three arrays, and then uses the flatten function to convert the array of arrays into a single array with all values.

Source

%dw 2.0

output application/json

var array1 = [1,2,3]

var array2 = [4,5,6]

var array3 = [7,8,9]

var arrayOfArrays = [array1, array2, array3]

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flatten(arrayOfArrays)

Output

[ 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 ]

Correct Answer: Response body: "Error" Default response status code: 200.

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1) Payload is successfully set to “Success – Started Flow”

2) When HTTP Request throws an error, execution halts

#[error.description] = “ABC"

#[error.errorType] = "XYZ"

3) The On Error Continue scope handles the error. When On Error Continue scope is invoked, all the processors in error block are executed and success response is sent back to the client with payload which is set in error flow. In this case payload is set to "Error" value in error block.

4) “Error” is returned to the requestor in the body of the HTTP request with HTTP Status Code: 200 as On error continue always sendssuccess error code.

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