An Anypoint Platform organization has been configured with an external identity provider (IdP) for identity management and client management. What credentials or token must be provided to Anypoint CLI to execute commands against the Anypoint Platform APIs?
Correct Answer:A
Correct Answer:: The credentials provided by the IdP for identity management
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Once an API Implementation is ready and the API is registered on API Manager, who should request the access to the API on Anypoint Exchange?
Correct Answer:D
Correct Answer:: API Consumer
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>> API clients are piece of code or programs that use the client credentials of API consumer but does not directly interact with Anypoint Exchange to get the access
>> API consumer is the one who should get registered and request access to API and then API client needs to use those client credentials to hit the APIs
So, API consumer is the one who needs to request access on the API from Anypoint Exchange
What correctly characterizes unit tests of Mule applications?
Correct Answer:D
Correct Answer:: They are typically written using MUnit to run in an embedded Mule runtime that does not require external connectivity.
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Below TWO are characteristics of Integration Tests but NOT unit tests:
>> They test the validity of input and output of source and target systems.
>> They must be triggered by an external client tool or event source.
It is NOT TRUE that Unit Tests must be run in a unit testing environment with dedicated Mule runtimes for the environment.
MuleSoft offers MUnit for writing Unit Tests and they run in an embedded Mule Runtime without needing any separate/ dedicated Runtimes to execute them. They also do NOT need any external connectivity as MUnit supports mocking via stubs.
https://dzone.com/articles/munit-framework
In which layer of API-led connectivity, does the business logic orchestration reside?
Correct Answer:C
Correct Answer:: Process Layer
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>> Experience layer is dedicated for enrichment of end user experience. This layer is to meet the needs of different API clients/ consumers.
>> System layer is dedicated to APIs which are modular in nature and implement/ expose various individual functionalities of backend systems
>> Process layer is the place where simple or complex business orchestration logic is written by invoking one or many System layer modular APIs
So, Process Layer is the right answer.
When could the API data model of a System API reasonably mimic the data model exposed by the corresponding backend system, with minimal improvements over the backend system's data model?
Correct Answer:C
Correct Answer:: When a pragmatic approach with only limited isolation from the backend system is deemed appropriate.
***************************************** General guidance w.r.t choosing Data Models:
>> If an Enterprise Data Model is in use then the API data model of System APIs should make use of data types from that Enterprise Data Model and the corresponding API implementation should translate between these data types from the Enterprise Data Model and the native data model of the backend system.
>> If no Enterprise Data Model is in use then each System API should be assigned to a Bounded Context, the API data model of System APIs should make use of data types from the corresponding Bounded Context Data Model and the corresponding API implementation should translate between these data types from the Bounded
Context Data Model and the native data model of the backend system. In this scenario, the data types in the Bounded Context Data Model are defined purely in terms of their business characteristics and are typically not related to the native data model of the backend system. In other words, the translation effort may be significant.
>> If no Enterprise Data Model is in use, and the definition of a clean Bounded Context Data Model is considered too much effort, then the API data model of System APIs should make use of data types that approximately mirror those from the backend system, same semantics and naming as backend system, lightly sanitized, expose all fields needed for the given System API’s functionality, but not significantly more and making good use of REST conventions.
The latter approach, i.e., exposing in System APIs an API data model that basically mirrors that of the backend system, does not provide satisfactory isolation from backend systems through the System API tier on its own. In particular, it will typically not be possible to "swap out" a backend system without significantly changing all System APIs in front of that backend system and therefore the API implementations of all Process APIs that depend on those System APIs! This is so because it is not desirable to prolong the life of a previous backend system’s data model in the form of the API data model of System APIs that now front a new backend system. The API data models of System APIs following this approach must therefore change when the backend system is replaced.
On the other hand:
>> It is a very pragmatic approach that adds comparatively little overhead over accessing the backend system directly
>> Isolates API clients from intricacies of the backend system outside the data model (protocol, authentication, connection pooling, network address, …)
>> Allows the usual API policies to be applied to System APIs
>> Makes the API data model for interacting with the backend system explicit and visible, by exposing it in the RAML definitions of the System APIs
>> Further isolation from the backend system data model does occur in the API implementations of the Process API tier