Mulesoft MCPA-Level-1 Exam Questions

151 Questions


Updation Date : 3-Nov-2025



Mulesoft MCPA-Level-1 exam questions feature realistic, exam-like questions that cover all key topics with detailed explanations. You’ll identify your strengths and weaknesses, allowing you to focus your study efforts effectively. By practicing with our MCPA-Level-1 practice test, you’ll gain the knowledge, speed, and confidence needed to pass the Mulesoft exam on your first attempt.

Why leave your success to chance? Our Mulesoft MCPA-Level-1 dumps are your ultimate guide to passing the exam on your first try!

An operations team is analyzing the effort needed to set up monitoring of their application network. They are looking at which API invocation metrics can be used to identify and predict trouble without having to write custom scripts or install additional analytics software or tools. Which type of metrics can satisfy this goal of directly identifying and predicting failures?


A. The number and types of API policy violations per day


B. The effectiveness of the application network based on the level of reuse


C. The number and types of past API invocations across the application network


D. The ROI from each APT invocation





A.
  The number and types of API policy violations per day

Explanation:
To monitor an application network and predict issues without custom scripts, policy violation metrics are critical. They provide insights into potential problems by tracking instances where API usage does not conform to defined policies. Here’s why this approach is suitable:

  • Predictive Monitoring:
  • No Custom Scripting Needed:
  • Explanation of Incorrect Options:

A European company has customers all across Europe, and the IT department is migrating from an older platform to MuleSoft. The main requirements are that the new platform should allow redeployments with zero downtime and deployment of applications to multiple runtime versions, provide security and speed, and utilize Anypoint MQ as the message service. Which runtime plane should the company select based on the requirements without additional network configuration?


A. Runtime Fabric on VMs / Bare Metal for the runtime plane


B. Customer-hosted runtime plane


C. MuleSoft-hosted runtime plane (CloudHub)


D. Anypoint Runtime Fabric on Self-Managed Kubernetes for the runtime plane





C.
  MuleSoft-hosted runtime plane (CloudHub)

Explanation:
For a European company with requirements such as zero-downtime redeployment, deployment to multiple runtime versions, secure and fast performance, and the use of Anypoint MQ without additional network configuration, CloudHub is the best choice for the following reasons:

  • Zero-Downtime Redeployment: CloudHub supports zero-downtime deployment, which allows seamless redeployment of applications without impacting availability. Support for Multiple Runtime Versions: CloudHub allows deploying applications across different Mule runtime versions, giving flexibility to test and migrate applications as needed.
  • Integrated Anypoint MQ: Anypoint MQ, which is fully integrated with CloudHub, provides reliable messaging across applications. Choosing CloudHub removes the need for additional network configurations, as Anypoint MQ can be directly accessed in this hosted environment.
  • Security and Performance: CloudHub offers secure networking, automatic scaling, and optimized performance without requiring a complex setup. This is managed by MuleSoft’s infrastructure, meeting the speed and security requirements with minimal overhead.
Explanation of Incorrect Options:
References:

For more information on CloudHub’s capabilities regarding zero-downtime deployments and integration with Anypoint MQ, refer to MuleSoft documentation on CloudHub.

An organization wants MuleSoft-hosted runtime plane features (such as HTTP load balancing, zero downtime, and horizontal and vertical scaling) in its Azure environment. What runtime plane minimizes the organization's effort to achieve these features?


A.

Anypoint Runtime Fabric


B.

Anypoint Platform for Pivotal Cloud Foundry


C.

CloudHub


D.

A hybrid combination of customer-hosted and MuleSoft-hosted Mule runtimes





A.
  

Anypoint Runtime Fabric



Explanation: Explanation
Correct Answer: Anypoint Runtime Fabric
*****************************************
>> When a customer is already having an Azure environment, It is not at all an ideal
approach to go with hybrid model having some Mule Runtimes hosted on Azure and some
on MuleSoft. This is unnecessary and useless.
>> CloudHub is a Mulesoft-hosted Runtime plane and is on AWS. We cannot customize to
point CloudHub to customer's Azure environment.
>> Anypoint Platform for Pivotal Cloud Foundry is specifically for infrastructure provided by
Pivotal Cloud Foundry
>> Anypoint Runtime Fabric is right answer as it is a container service that automates the
deployment and orchestration of Mule applications and API gateways. Runtime Fabric runs
within a customer-managed infrastructure on AWS, Azure, virtual machines (VMs), and
bare-metal servers.
-Some of the capabilities of Anypoint Runtime Fabric include:
-Isolation between applications by running a separate Mule runtime per application.
-Ability to run multiple versions of Mule runtime on the same set of resources.
-Scaling applications across multiple replicas.
-Automated application fail-over.
-Application management with Anypoint Runtime Manager.
Reference: https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-fabric/1.7/

What API policy would LEAST likely be applied to a Process API?


A.

Custom circuit breaker


B.

Client ID enforcement


C.

Rate limiting


D.

JSON threat protection





D.
  

JSON threat protection



Explanation: Explanation
Correct Answer: JSON threat protection
*****************************************
Fact: Technically, there are no restrictions on what policy can be applied in what layer. Any
policy can be applied on any layer API. However, context should also be considered
properly before blindly applying the policies on APIs.
That is why, this question asked for a policy that would LEAST likely be applied to a
Process API.
From the given options:
>> All policies except "JSON threat protection" can be applied without hesitation to the
APIs in Process tier.
>> JSON threat protection policy ideally fits for experience APIs to prevent suspicious
JSON payload coming from external API clients. This covers more of a security aspect by
trying to avoid possibly malicious and harmful JSON payloads from external clients calling
experience APIs.
As external API clients are NEVER allowed to call Process APIs directly and also these
kind of malicious and harmful JSON payloads are always stopped at experience API layer
only using this policy, it is LEAST LIKELY that this same policy is again applied on Process
Layer API.

An enterprise is embarking on the API-led digital transformation journey, and the central IT team has started to define System APIs. Currently there is no Enterprise Data Model being defined within the enterprise, and the definition of a clean Bounded Context Data Model requires too much effort. According to MuleSoft's recommended guidelines, how should the System API data model be defined?


A. If there are misspellings of the data fields in the back-end system, Systerm APIs should not correct it, and expose it as-is to mirror the back-end systems


B. The data model of the System APIs should make use of data types that approximately mirror those from the back-end systems


C. The data model should define its own naming convention, and not follow the same naming as the back-end systems


D. The System APIs should expose all back-end system fields





B.
  The data model of the System APIs should make use of data types that approximately mirror those from the back-end systems

Explanation: When defining data models for System APIs without an established Enterprise Data Model, MuleSoft recommends mirroring the back-end systems' data types to achieve quick and effective integration without adding complexity. This approach has several benefits:

  • Alignment with Backend Systems:
  • Flexibility for Future Enhancements:
  • Explanation of Incorrect Options:

A company deploys Mule applications with default configurations through Runtime Manager to customer-hosted Mule runtimes. Each Mule application is an API implementation that exposes RESTful interfaces to API clients. The Mule runtimes are managed by the MuleSoft-hosted control plane. The payload is never used by any Logger components. When an API client sends an HTTP request to a customer-hosted Mule application, which metadata or data (payload) is pushed to the MuleSoft-hosted control plane?


A. Only the data


B. No data


C. The data and metadata


D. Only the metadata





D.
  Only the metadata

What is a key requirement when using an external Identity Provider for Client Management in Anypoint Platform?


A.

Single sign-on is required to sign in to Anypoint Platform


B.

The application network must include System APIs that interact with the Identity
Provider


C.

To invoke OAuth 2.0-protected APIs managed by Anypoint Platform, API clients must submit access tokens issued by that same Identity Provider


D.

APIs managed by Anypoint Platform must be protected by SAML 2.0 policies





C.
  

To invoke OAuth 2.0-protected APIs managed by Anypoint Platform, API clients must submit access tokens issued by that same Identity Provider



Explanation: https://www.folkstalk.com/2019/11/mulesoft-integration-and-platform.html
Explanation
Correct Answer: To invoke OAuth 2.0-protected APIs managed by Anypoint Platform, API
clients must submit access tokens issued by that same Identity Provider
*****************************************
>> It is NOT necessary that single sign-on is required to sign in to Anypoint Platform
because we are using an external Identity Provider for Client Management
>> It is NOT necessary that all APIs managed by Anypoint Platform must be protected by
SAML 2.0 policies because we are using an external Identity Provider for Client
Management
>> Not TRUE that the application network must include System APIs that interact with the
Identity Provider because we are using an external Identity Provider for Client Management
Only TRUE statement in the given options is - "To invoke OAuth 2.0-protected APIs
managed by Anypoint Platform, API clients must submit access tokens issued by that same
Identity Provider"
References:
https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-manager/2.x/external-oauth-2.0-token-validation-policy
https://blogs.mulesoft.com/dev/api-dev/api-security-ways-to-authenticate-and-authorize/

Refer to the exhibit.

A developer is building a client application to invoke an API deployed to the STAGING
environment that is governed by a client ID enforcement policy.
What is required to successfully invoke the API?


A.

The client ID and secret for the Anypoint Platform account owning the API in the STAGING environment


B.

The client ID and secret for the Anypoint Platform account's STAGING environment


C.

The client ID and secret obtained from Anypoint Exchange for the API instance in the
STAGING environment


D.

A valid OAuth token obtained from Anypoint Platform and its associated client ID and
secret





C.
  

The client ID and secret obtained from Anypoint Exchange for the API instance in the
STAGING environment



Explanation: Explanation
Correct Answer: The client ID and secret obtained from Anypoint Exchange for the API
instance in the STAGING environment
*****************************************
>> We CANNOT use the client ID and secret of Anypoint Platform account or any individual
environments for accessing the APIs
>> As the type of policy that is enforced on the API in question is "Client ID Enforcment
Policy", OAuth token based access won't work.
Right way to access the API is to use the client ID and secret obtained from Anypoint
Exchange for the API instance in a particular environment we want to work on.
References:
Managing API instance Contracts on API Manager
https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-manager/1.x/request-access-to-api-task
https://docs.mulesoft.com/exchange/to-request-access
https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-manager/2.x/policy-mule3-client-id-based-policies


Page 1 out of 19 Pages