Mulesoft MCPA-Level-1 Exam Questions

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When using CloudHub with the Shared Load Balancer, what is managed EXCLUSIVELY
by the API implementation (the Mule application) and NOT by Anypoint Platform?


A.

The assignment of each HTTP request to a particular CloudHub worker


B.

The logging configuration that enables log entries to be visible in Runtime Manager


C.

The SSL certificates used by the API implementation to expose HTTPS endpoints


D.

The number of DNS entries allocated to the API implementation





C.
  

The SSL certificates used by the API implementation to expose HTTPS endpoints



Explanation: Explanation
Correct Answer: The SSL certificates used by the API implementation to expose HTTPS
endpoints
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>> The assignment of each HTTP request to a particular CloudHub worker is taken care by
Anypoint Platform itself. We need not manage it explicitly in the API implementation and in
fact we CANNOT manage it in the API implementation.
>> The logging configuration that enables log entries to be visible in Runtime Manager is
ALWAYS managed in the API implementation and NOT just for SLB. So this is not
something we do EXCLUSIVELY when using SLB.
>> We DO NOT manage the number of DNS entries allocated to the API implementation
inside the code. Anypoint Platform takes care of this.
It is the SSL certificates used by the API implementation to expose HTTPS endpoints that
is to be managed EXCLUSIVELY by the API implementation. Anypoint Platform does NOT
do this when using SLBs.

An application updates an inventory running only one process at any given time to keep the inventory consistent. This process takes 200 milliseconds (.2 seconds) to execute; therefore, the scalability threshold of the application is five requests per second. What is the impact on the application if horizontal scaling is applied, thereby increasing the number of Mule workers?


A. The application scalability threshold is five requests per second regardless of the horizontal scaling


B. The total process execution time is now 100 milliseconds (.1 seconds)


C. The application scalability threshold is now 10 requests per second


D. Horizontal scaling cannot be applied to an already-running application





A.
  The application scalability threshold is five requests per second regardless of the horizontal scaling

Explanation:
Given that the application is designed to handle only one process at a time to maintain data consistency, here’s why horizontal scaling won’t increase the processing limit:
Single-Process Constraint:

  • Execution Time:
  • Explanation of Correct Answer (A):
  • Explanation of Incorrect Options:

A company is building an application network using MuleSoft's recommendations for various API layers. What is the main (default) role of a process API in an application network?


A. To secure and optimize the data synchronization processing of large data dumps between back-end systems


B. To manage and process the secure direct communication between a back-end system and an end-user client of mobile device in the application network


C. To automate parts of business processes by coordinating and orchestrating the invocation of other APIs in the application network


D. To secure, Manage, and process communication with specific types of end-user client applications or devices in the application network





C.
  To automate parts of business processes by coordinating and orchestrating the invocation of other APIs in the application network

Explanation:

  • Role of Process API in API-led Connectivity:
  • Evaluating the Options:
Conclusion:
Refer to MuleSoft's API-led connectivity documentation for further explanation of the roles and responsibilities of Process APIs in an application network.

Version 3.0.1 of a REST API implementation represents time values in PST time using ISO 8601 hh:mm:ss format. The API implementation needs to be changed to instead represent time values in CEST time using ISO 8601 hh:mm:ss format. When following the semver.org semantic versioning specification, what version should be assigned to the updated API implementation?


A.

3.0.2


B.

4.0.0


C.

3.1.0


D.

3.0.1





B.
  

4.0.0



Explanation: Explanation
Correct Answer: 4.0.0
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As per semver.org semantic versioning specification:
Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the:
- MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes.
- MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards compatible manner.
- PATCH version when you make backwards compatible bug fixes.
As per the scenario given in the question, the API implementation is completely changing
its behavior. Although the format of the time is still being maintained as hh:mm:ss and there
is no change in schema w.r.t format, the API will start functioning different after this change
as the times are going to come completely different.
Example: Before the change, say, time is going as 09:00:00 representing the PST. Now on,
after the change, the same time will go as 18:00:00 as Central European Summer Time is
9 hours ahead of Pacific Time.
>> This may lead to some uncertain behavior on API clients depending on how they are
handling the times in the API response. All the API clients need to be informed that the API
functionality is going to change and will return in CEST format. So, this considered as a
MAJOR change and the version of API for this new change would be 4.0.0

What is true about the technology architecture of Anypoint VPCs?


A.

The private IP address range of an Anypoint VPC is automatically chosen by CloudHub


B.

Traffic between Mule applications deployed to an Anypoint VPC and on-premises
systems can stay within a private network


C.

Each CloudHub environment requires a separate Anypoint VPC


D.

VPC peering can be used to link the underlying AWS VPC to an on-premises (non
AWS) private network





B.
  

Traffic between Mule applications deployed to an Anypoint VPC and on-premises
systems can stay within a private network



Explanation: Explanation
Correct Answer: Traffic between Mule applications deployed to an Anypoint VPC and onpremises
systems can stay within a private network
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>> The private IP address range of an Anypoint VPC is NOT automatically chosen by
CloudHub. It is chosen by us at the time of creating VPC using thr CIDR blocks.
CIDR Block: The size of the Anypoint VPC in Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR)
notation.
For example, if you set it to 10.111.0.0/24, the Anypoint VPC is granted 256 IP addresses
from 10.111.0.0 to 10.111.0.255.
Ideally, the CIDR Blocks you choose for the Anypoint VPC come from a private IP space,
and should not overlap with any other Anypoint VPC’s CIDR Blocks, or any CIDR Blocks in
use in your corporate network.

A company deployed an API to a single worker/replica in the shared cloud in the U.S. West Region. What happens when the Availability Zone experiences an outage?


A. CloudHub will auto-redeploy the APL in the U.S. East Region


B. The APT will be unavailable until the availability comes back online, at which time the worker/replica will be auto-restarted


C. CloudHub will auto-redeploy the API in another Availability Zone in the U.S. West Region


D. The Anypoint Platform admin is alerted when the AP] is experiencing an outage and needs the trigger the CI/CD pipeline to redeploy to the US. East Region





B.
  The APT will be unavailable until the availability comes back online, at which time the worker/replica will be auto-restarted

Explanation:
In a CloudHub deployment with a single worker/replica located in a specific Availability Zone (AZ), if an AZ experiences an outage, here’s what happens:
Worker Availability: Since the application is deployed in a single AZ, CloudHub does not automatically redeploy the application in a different zone or region during an outage. Thus, if the current AZ is unavailable, the application will be offline.
Auto-Restart upon AZ Recovery: Once the affected AZ is back online, CloudHub will auto-restart the worker in the same AZ without manual intervention. This ensures that as soon as the AZ is functional, the application resumes automatically.

Several times a week, an API implementation shows several thousand requests per minute in an Anypoint Monitoring dashboard, Between these bursts, the dashboard shows between two and five requests per minute. The API implementation is running on Anypoint Runtime Fabric with two non-clustered replicas, reserved vCPU 1.0 and vCPU Limit 2.0.
An API consumer has complained about slow response time, and the dashboard shows the 99 percentile is greater than 120 seconds at the time of the complaint. It also shows greater than 90% CPU usage during these time periods.
In manual tests in the QA environment, the API consumer has consistently reproduced the slow response time and high CPU usage, and there were no other API requests at this time. In a brainstorming session, the engineering team has created several proposals to reduce the response time for requests.
Which proposal should be pursued first?


A. Increase the vCPU resources of the API implementation


B. Modify the API client to split the problematic request into smaller, less-demanding requests


C. Increase the number of replicas of the API implementation


D. Throttle the APT client to reduce the number of requests per minute





A.
  Increase the vCPU resources of the API implementation

An API implementation is being designed that must invoke an Order API, which is known to
repeatedly experience downtime.
For this reason, a fallback API is to be called when the Order API is unavailable.
What approach to designing the invocation of the fallback API provides the best resilience?


A.

Search Anypoint Exchange for a suitable existing fallback API, and then implement
invocations to this fallback API in addition to the Order API


B.

Create a separate entry for the Order API in API Manager, and then invoke this API as a
fallback API if the primary Order API is unavailable


C.

Redirect client requests through an HTTP 307 Temporary Redirect status code to the
fallback API whenever the Order API is unavailable


D.

Set an option in the HTTP Requester component that invokes the Order API to instead
invoke a fallback API whenever an HTTP 4xx or 5xx response status code is returned from
the Order API





A.
  

Search Anypoint Exchange for a suitable existing fallback API, and then implement
invocations to this fallback API in addition to the Order API



Explanation: Explanation
Correct Answer: Search Anypoint exchange for a suitable existing fallback API, and then
implement invocations to this fallback API in addition to the order API
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>> It is not ideal and good approach, until unless there is a pre-approved agreement with
the API clients that they will receive a HTTP 3xx temporary redirect status code and they
have to implement fallback logic their side to call another API.
>> Creating separate entry of same Order API in API manager would just create an
another instance of it on top of same API implementation. So, it does NO GOOD by using
clone od same API as a fallback API. Fallback API should be ideally a different API
implementation that is not same as primary one.
>> There is NO option currently provided by Anypoint HTTP Connector that allows us to
invoke a fallback API when we receive certain HTTP status codes in response.
The only statement TRUE in the given options is to Search Anypoint exchange for a
suitable existing fallback API, and then implement invocations to this fallback API in
addition to the order API.


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