Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Platform Architect - Level1 - Reference Notes

 I have passed my "Salesforce Certified Mulesoft Platform Architect - Level1" on 4th Dec 2022 and would like to share the reference study notes with Mulesoft community.

Here is my certificate

My Score in the exam

My study reference material Topic/chapter wise.

Once Reference links are completed, strongly recommend taking free practice exam from mulesoft @ https://training.mulesoft.com/certification/architect-platform-level1/practice-exam

practice this exam until you get all correct answers and why they are correct by referring to mulesoft documentation and based on your experience.

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Explaining application network basics 

https://blogs.mulesoft.com/learn-apis/api-led-connectivity/what-is-api-led-connectivity/

https://www.mulesoft.com/resources/api/what-is-full-lifecycle-api-management .

https://docs.mulesoft.com/monitoring/

https://www.infomentum.com/mulesoft-plain-language

Establishing organizational and platform foundations 

https://share.vidyard.com/watch/n7DxctoBzuvtTyhhmysTec

https://www.mulesoft.com/lp/whitepaper/soa/how-to-build-c4e

https://blogs.mulesoft.com/tag/catalyst/

https://docs.mulesoft.com/general/intro-platform-hosting

https://docs.mulesoft.com/access-management/managing-api-clients

https://docs.mulesoft.com/access-management/external-identity

https://meetups.mulesoft.com/events/details/mulesoft-surat-presents-identity-management-and-client-management-with-mulesoft/

https://docs.mulesoft.com/anypoint-security/tokenization

https://blogs.mulesoft.com/news/mulesoft-gdpr-compliance/

Designing and sharing APIs

https://docs.mulesoft.com/exchange/to-deploy-using-rest-connect

https://blogs.mulesoft.com/dev-guides/common-api-mistakes/

https://restcookbook.com/HTTP%20Methods/idempotency/

https://www.mulesoft.com/platform/api/anypoint-designer

Designing APIs using system, process, and experience layer

https://www.mulesoft.com/sites/default/files/resource-assets/API-led-connectivity-new-soa-updated.pdf

Governing web APIs on Anypoint Platform 

https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-manager/2.x/create-instance-task

https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-manager/2.x/client-id-based-policies#configuring-api-specifications

https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-manager/2.x/apply-configure-json-threat-task

https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-manager/2.x/message-logging-policy

https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-manager/2.x/policies-landing-page

https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-manager/2.x/client-id-based-policies

https://docs.mulesoft.com/access-management/external-identity.

https://docs.mulesoft.com/gateway/policies-custom-examples

 

Architecting and deploying API implementations

https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-manager/1.x/api-auto-discovery#configuring-autodiscovery

https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-manager/lb-architecture https://help.mulesoft.com/s/article/Configuring-Public-and-Private-Mule-Applications-Behind-DLB https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/4.4/build-an-https-service https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-manager/vpc-firewall-rules-concept https://docs.mulesoft.com/general/intro-platform-hosting#runtime-plane-hosting-options https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/3.9/testing-strategies https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-manager/command-line-tools https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/4.4/deploy-on-premises https://blogs.mulesoft.com/dev-guides/how-to-tutorials/get-started-with-platform-apis-and-postman-automation/ https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/4.3/deploying https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/4.1/mmp-concept

Deploying API implementations to CloudHub

https://docs.mulesoft.com/object-store/ https://docs.mulesoft.com/object-store-connector/1.2/object-store-examples https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/3.9/object-store-module-reference https://help.mulesoft.com/s/question/0D52T00004mXYC6SAO/horizontal-scaling-vs-vertical-scaling-of-mule-workers https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-manager/autoscaling-in-cloudhub https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-manager/cloudhub-hadr https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-manager/cloudhub-dedicated-load-balancer https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-manager/tgw-about https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-manager/vpc-provisioning-concept https://blogs.mulesoft.com/api-integration/security/how-to-choose-the-cidr-block-for-your-vpc/ https://help.mulesoft.com/s/question/0D52T00005N1LxsSAF/dedicated-load-balancer-vs-shared-load-balancer https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-manager/dedicated-load-balancer-tutorial https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-manager/cloudhub-dedicated-load-balancer https://blogs.mulesoft.com/api-integration/cloud/how-to-distribute-your-api-traffic-with-mulesoft-load-balancers/ https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-manager/cloudhub-networking-guide https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/4.4/hadr-guide

Meeting API quality goals.

https://apisero.com/cache-scope-and-object-store-in-mule-4/ https://www.appnovation.com/blog/effectively-using-caching-while-developing-apis-mule-part-1 https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/4.3/cache-scope https://blogs.mulesoft.com/dev-guides/application-network-fault-tolerance/ https://dzone.com/articles/reasons-to-scale-horizontally https://help.mulesoft.com/s/question/0D52T00004mXYC6SAO/horizontal-scaling-vs-vertical-scaling-of-mule-workers

Monitoring and analyzing application networks

https://docs.mulesoft.com/monitoring/configure-monitoring-cloudhub

https://docs.mulesoft.com/monitoring/log-tokenization

https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-functional-monitoring/afm-in-anypoint-platform

https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-manager/custom-application-alerts

 

Additional Resources - Must Review before exam.

https://docs.mulesoft.com/cloudhub-1/cloudhub-hadr

https://docs.mulesoft.com/cloudhub-1/worker-monitoring

https://docs.mulesoft.com/cloudhub-1/vpc-architecture-concept

https://docs.mulesoft.com/cloudhub-1/vpc-connectivity-methods-concept

https://docs.mulesoft.com/cloudhub-1/vpc-firewall-rules-concept

https://docs.mulesoft.com/cloudhub-1/autoscaling-in-cloudhub

https://docs.mulesoft.com/datagraph/add-api-to-unified-schema

https://training.mulesoft.com/site/openlearn.do?dispatch=previewLesson&id=4393392a-0f84-11ed-b5a6-0cc47a352292&forAtlassian=&macro=&featuredPanel=&playlistsPanel=&masteredPanel=&popularPanel=&followingPanel=&recentlyViewedPanel=&randomPicksPanel=

https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-manager/2.x/analytics-landing-page

https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-manager/2.x/analytics-chart

https://docs.mulesoft.com/access-management/managing-api-clients

https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-manager/alerts-on-runtime-manager

https://help.mulesoft.com/s/article/CloudHub-Logging-FAQ#:~:text=The%20CloudHub%20logs%20seen%20in%20the%20Runtime%20Manager%20UI%20are,where%20the%20application%20is%20deployed.

https://docs.mulesoft.com/policies/policies-included-spike-control

https://docs.mulesoft.com/policies/policies-included-rate-limiting

https://docs.mulesoft.com/policies/policies-included-json-threat-protection

https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/4.3/mmp-concept

https://docs.mulesoft.com/object-store/osv2-faq#:~:text=keys%20per%20app.-,What%20is%20the%20maximum%20key%20size%3F,(%20%7C%20)%20characters%20in%20keys.

https://docs.mulesoft.com/exchange/to-request-access

https://www.mulesoft.com/webinars/c4e-integration-architecture-sdlc-model

https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/4.4/idempotent-message-validator

https://ambassadorpatryk.com/2019/07/circuit-breaker-module/

https://www.slideshare.net/SandeepDeshmukh11/demystifying-the-use-of-circuit-breakers-with-mulesoft

https://dzone.com/articles/fine-grained-vs-coarse-grained-apis-in-mulesoft

https://training.mulesoft.com/site/cms.do?view=ol_player&id=d52e5384-1b1d-11ec-8643-0cc47adeb5f8

https://dzone.com/articles/digesting-from-backend-systems-with-system-apis-mu