MCD-Level-2 MuleSoft Certified Developer - Level 2 (Mule 4) Questions and Answers

To use Maven to successfully deploy the application, the developer needs to modify the pom.xml file inside the Mule project. The pom.xml file contains the configuration and dependencies of the Mule application, as well as the deployment information such as the CloudHub region, environment, and worker size. The developer needs to specify these properties in the pom.xml file before using Maven to deploy the application. References:https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/4.3/mmp-concept#application-deployment-descriptor

To run a test locally without the policies applied, the developer should create a properties file specifically for local development and set the API instance ID to a value that is not used in API Manager. This way, the developer can use different configuration properties for different environments and avoid triggering API autodiscovery when running tests locally. API autodiscovery is a mechanism that associates an API implementation with its corresponding API specification and policies in API Manager based on its API instance ID. By setting this ID to a value that does not exist in API Manager, the developer can prevent API autodiscovery from finding and applying any policies to the local test. References: https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-manager/2.x/api-auto-discovery-new-concept#configuring-api-autodiscovery https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/4.3/configuring-properties

To create a new project that selects the correct API version and scaffolds the flows from the API specification, the developer should import a published API. This option allows importing an API specification that has been published to Anypoint Exchange or Design Center, and selecting a specific version of that API specification. The developer can also choose to scaffold flows based on that API specification. References:https://docs.mulesoft.com/apikit/4.x/apikit-4-new-project-task

The validate-customer flow uses an until-successful scope to validate each field of the customer data. The until-successful scope executes its processors until they succeed or exhausts the maximum number of retries. If any processor fails, it raises an error and stops executing the remaining processors. Therefore, if only the email address is invalid, a VALIDATION.INVALID_EMAIL error is raised and the validation of appointment date and customer name is skipped. References:https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/4.3/until-successful-scope

To log all the errors raised by the VM Connector, the developer needs to add an async logger with the name ‘org.mule.extension.vm’ and the level ‘ERROR’ inside the appenders tag of the log4j2.xml file. This will enable logging all error-level events generated by the VM Connector to the console appender. References:https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/4.3/logging-in-mule#configuring-custom-logging-settings

When implementing a synchronous API where the event source is an HTTP Listener, Mule automatically propagates some message attributes between flows via outbound and inbound properties. One of these attributes is correlation ID, which is returned to the caller in the response header by default as MULE_CORRELATION_ID. References: https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/4.3/about-mule-message#message-attributes

Based on the code snippet and schema.json file below, when testing using the API Kit console if no values are entered in client-secret, HTTP status code 403 (FORBIDDEN) is returned. This is because client-secret is defined as a required header parameter in schema.json file, which means that it must be present in every request. If no values are entered in client-secret, then it is equivalent to omitting this header parameter, which violates the schema and causes APIKit Router to return HTTP status code 403. References:https://docs.mulesoft.com/apikit/4.x/apikit-4-headers

A cipher suite is a set of cryptographic algorithms that are used to secure the communication between a client and a server. A cipher suite consists of four components: a key exchange algorithm, an authentication algorithm, an encryption algorithm, and a message authentication code (MAC) algorithm. During the cipher suite exchange, the client and the server agree on which encryption algorithm to use for encrypting and decrypting the data. References:https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/4.3/tls-configuration#cipher-suites

To ensure the test suites and test cases written for Flow-1 and Flow-2 will execute successfully, the developer should use a Set Event processor to pass the input that is needed by Flow-2, and keep the test cases for Flow-1 and Flow-2 independent. This way, the developer can isolate the testing of each flow and avoid coupling them together. References:https://docs.mulesoft.com/munit/2.3/munit-test-flow

The correct sequence of activities that takes place during the Maven build and deployment is validate, initialize, compile, test package, verify, install, deploy. These are Maven lifecycle phases that define a sequence of goals to execute during a build process. Each phase represents a stage in the build lifecycle and can have zero or more goals bound to it. References:https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-lifecycle.html

Based on the code snippet and MUnit test case below, when the MUnit test case is executed, the expected result is that the test case fails with an assertion error. This is because the assert-equals processor compares two values for equality, and fails if they are not equal. In this case, the expected value is ‘Hello World’, but the actual value returned by the implementation flow is ‘Hello Mule’. Therefore, the assertion fails and an error is thrown. References:https://docs.mulesoft.com/munit/2.3/assert-equals-processor

To remove values from Mule application A’s Object Store v2, Mule application B can use Object Store v2 REST API. This API allows performing operations on Object Store v2 resources using HTTP methods, such as GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE. Mule application B can use the DELETE method to remove values from Mule application A’s Object Store v2 by specifying the object store ID and the key of the value to delete. References:https://docs.mulesoft.com/object-store/osv2-apis

To communicate asynchronously between two APIs deployed to a two-node on-prem cluster, the developer can use the VM Connector if the two APIs use the same domain. The VM Connector allows passing messages between different Mule applications within a single Mule runtime instance or across different instances using shared memory or persistent storage. If two APIs are deployed under the same domain, they can share resources such as VM queues and communicate asynchronously using VM Connector operations. References: https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/4.3/vm-connector https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/4.3/shared-resources

To reuse Mule Maven plugin configuration across multiple individual Mule applications, the developer should use a parent pom.xml file. A parent pom.xml file defines common configuration for one or more child projects that inherit from it. The developer can specify common properties and dependencies for all child projects in the parent pom.xml file, such as Mule Maven plugin configuration, and then reference them in each child project’s pom.xml file using placeholders. References: https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/4.3/mmp-concept#parent-pom https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-pom.html#Project_Inheritance

To convert a JKS keystore to PKCS12, the developer needs to use the keytool-importkeystore command with the following options: -srckeystore keystore.jks -srcstoretype JKS -destkeystore keystore.p12 -deststoretype PKCS12. This command imports all entries from a source JKS keystore (keystore.jks) into a destination PKCS12 keystore (keystore.p12). References:https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/tools/keytool.html#GUID-5990A2E4-78E3-47B7-AE75-6D1826259549