04_BuildAPIs

Question 1

Where can you build MuleSoft applications?

Answer 1

Anypoint Studio (and Flow Designer in Design Center)

Question 2

What is a Mule event source?

Answer 2

Initiates the execution of the flow.

Question 3

What transform, filter, enrich and process the event and its message?

Answer 3

Mule event processors.

Question 4

What initiates the execution of the flow?

Answer 4

Mule event source.

Question 5

What components make up the Mule message?

Answer 5

Attributes and Payload.

Question 6

What are the 4 components that make up a Mule event?

Answer 6

Message, Attributes, Payload, Variables.

Question 7

What is the Mule message?

Answer 7

Contains both the attributes and the payload. It is the data that passes through the flow of the app.

Question 8

What are the attributes of a Mule event?

Answer 8

Metadata contained in the message header.

Question 9

What is the payload of a Mule event?

Answer 9

The core infor of the message - the data that the app processes.

Question 10

What are the variables of a Mule event?

Answer 10

Metadata for the Mule event which can be defined and reference in the app processing the event.

Question 11

What is the Mule palette?

Answer 11

It can be found on the right hand side of Anypoint Studio, it is where you access the connectors. You may need to search in the Exchange to add the modules with the necessary connectors.

Question 12

What is the Package Explorer?

Answer 12

It can be found on the left hand side of Anypoint Studio, it is where all the files/folders can be found.

Question 13

What modules are (by default) within the Mule Palette?

Answer 13

Sockets and HTTP modules.

Question 14

Anypoint Studio comes with an embedded ????????, to test application without leaving it?

Answer 14

Mule runtime.

Question 15

What is used to automate the testing of Mule applications?

Answer 15

MUnit.

Question 16

Explain Global configuration elements?

Answer 16

The configuration can be encapsulated in a separate global element (a resusable config that can be used by many operations, defines a connection to a network resource).

Question 17

A connector configuration is sometimes referred to as ?

Answer 17

the connector

Question 18

What component should be used to transform data?

Answer 18

Transform Message

Question 19

How many listeners will a RESTful interface have?

Answer 19

1 for each resource/method pair.

Question 20

How can you create the RESTful interface?

Answer 20

Either by manually or generate it from the API definition

Question 21

What plug in can generate an interface automatically from a RAML API definition?

Answer 21

APIKit plugin.

Question 22

How many flows does the APIKit plug in create, when creating the RESTful interface from a RAML file?

Answer 22

One for each of the API resource/method pairs.

Question 23

What is the Flow Reference component?

Answer 23

You can use this to call other flows.

Question 24

What is a benefit of breaking a flow into multiple flows?

Answer 24

Promotes code reuse. Makes graphical view more intuitive and the XML code easier to read.

Question 25

How are flows identified?

Answer 25

By name

Question 26

What should you use as an inbound endpoint to trigger a flow with an HTTP request?

Answer 26

HTTP Listener.

Question 27

What event processor should be used to set payload?

Answer 27

Set Payload.

Question 28

What connector should be used to connect to JSBC databases?

Answer 28

Database connector

Question 29

What component should be used to transform messages from one data type and structure to another?

Answer 29

Transform Message.

Question 30

How can you pass messages to other flows?

Answer 30

Flow Reference.