Certified MuleSoft Integration Architect I: Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Integration Architect I

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* Any change in the application will require a restart except when the issue outside the app. For below situations , you would need to redeploy the code after doing necessary changes

-- One of the stored procedures being called by the Mule application has been renamed. In this case, in the Mule application you will have to do changes to accommodate the new stored procedure name.

-- Required redesign of Mule applications to follow microservice architecture principles. As code is changed, deployment is must

-- If the credentials changed and you need to update the connector or the properties.

-- The credentials for accessing the database have been updated and the previous credentials are no longer valid. In this situation you need to restart or redeploy depending on how credentials are configured in Mule application.

* So Correct answer is The database server was unavailable for four hours due to a major outage but is now fully operational again as this is the only external issue to application.

Correct answer is Implement transformation logic in the new Mule application using DataWeave, invoking existing transformation services when possible. * The key here minimal testing effort, 'Extend existing transformation logic' is not a feasible option because additional functionality is highly specific to the new Mule application so it should not be a part of commonly used functionality. So this option is ruled out. * 'Implement transformation logic in the new Mule application using DataWeave, replicating the transformation logic of existing transformation services' Replicating the transformation logic of existing transformation services will cause duplicity of code. So this option is ruled out. * 'Implement and expose all transformation logic as microservices using DataWeave, so it can be reused by any application component that needs it, including the new Mule application' as question specifies that the transformation is app specific and wont be used outside

Correct answer is Use a Batch job scope to bulk insert records into the database

* Batch Job is most efficient way to manage millions of records.

A few points to note here are as follows :

Reliability: If you want reliabilty while processing the records, i.e should the processing survive a runtime crash or other unhappy scenarios, and when restarted process all the remaining records, if yes then go for batch as it uses persistent queues.

Error Handling: In Parallel for each an error in a particular route will stop processing the remaining records in that route and in such case you'd need to handle it using on error continue, batch process does not stop during such error instead you can have a step for failures and have a dedicated handling in it.

Memory footprint: Since question said that there are millions of records to process, parallel for each will aggregate all the processed records at the end and can possibly cause Out Of Memory.

Batch job instead provides a BatchResult in the on complete phase where you can get the count of failures and success. For huge file processing if order is not a concern definitely go ahead with Batch Job

* Mule High Availability Clustering provides basic failover capability for Mule. * When the primary Mule Runtime becomes unavailable, for example, because of a fatal JVM or hardware failure or it's taken offline for maintenance, a backup Mule Runtime immediately becomes the primary node and resumes processing where the failed instance left off. * After a system administrator recovers a failed Mule Runtime server and puts it back online, that server automatically becomes the backup node. In this case, Alice, once up, will become backup ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Reference: https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/4.3/hadr-guide So correct choice is : Files are polled form Bob node Bob is now the primary node

Correct answer is When a Mule runtime on a given customer-hosted server is experiencing high memory consumption during certain periods Using Anypoint Monitoring, you can configure two different types of alerts: Basic alerts for servers and Mule apps Limit per organization: Up to 50 basic alerts for users who do not have a Titanium subscription to Anypoint Platform You can set up basic alerts to trigger email notifications when a metric you are measuring passes a specified threshold. You can create basic alerts for the following metrics for servers or Mule apps: For on-premises servers and CloudHub apps: * CPU utilization * Memory utilization * Thread count Advanced alerts for graphs in custom dashboards in Anypoint Monitoring. You must have a Titanium subscription to use this feature. Limit per organization: Up to 20 advanced alerts

* Setting a transaction timeout for the Bitronix transaction manager

Set the transaction timeout either

-- In wrapper.conf

-- In CloudHub in the Properties tab of the Mule application deployment

The default is 60 secs. It is defined as

mule.bitronix.transactiontimeout = 120

* This property defines the timeout for each transaction created for this manager.

If the transaction has not terminated before the timeout expires it will be automatically rolled back.

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Additional Info around Transaction Management:

Bitronix is available as the XA transaction manager for Mule applications

To use Bitronix, declare it as a global configuration element in the Mule application

<bti:transaction-manager />

Each Mule runtime can have only one instance of a Bitronix transaction manager, which is shared by all Mule applications

For customer-hosted deployments, define the XA transaction manager in a Mule domain

-- Then share this global element among all Mule applications in the Mule runtime

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