Describe the components and benefits of Anypoint Platform for system integration18% of the exam
Anypoint Platform integration components and their roles
The Anypoint Platform component map for integration: Design Center's API Designer, Exchange, Mule runtime engine, Runtime Manager, Anypoint MQ, Partner Manager and Anypoint Monitoring, and how to match a project task to the component that does it.
Identify the primary components of Anypoint Platform and their benefits for system integration.
~7 min read · 5 practice questions ·
What the exam expects
- Name the Anypoint Platform component that does a described job: design, discover, run, deploy and manage, message, or exchange B2B documents.
- Tell the engine that executes integrations (Mule runtime engine) apart from the console that deploys and manages them (Runtime Manager).
- Pick Anypoint MQ for reliable asynchronous messaging and Partner Manager for trading-partner (B2B) exchanges.
- Map the activities of a first project (discover, design, develop and test, deploy, monitor) to the right components.
Key terms:
- Anypoint Platform: a MuleSoft product to design, build and manage APIs and integrations.
- Mule runtime engine: the Java-based integration runtime engine for Anypoint Platform.
- Runtime Manager: the console where you deploy and manage applications built with any Mule.
- Anypoint MQ: enterprise-class cloud messaging fully integrated with Anypoint Platform.
- Partner Manager: the web interface for partner configuration, document flow and transaction monitoring.
Key facts
Executes Mule apps
- Detail
- Mule runtime engine, a lightweight integration engine
Deploy, manage, monitor from one place
- Detail
- Runtime Manager, for cloud or on-premises apps
API Designer output
- Detail
- Specifications and RAML fragments, published to Exchange
Flow Designer
- Detail
- End of life per today's docs; the product page still lists it as Design Center's visual integration-workflow builder
Exam version
- Detail
- Questions align to the Spring '24 release
Anypoint MQ patterns
- Detail
- Queuing and publish/subscribe, plus a REST API for non-Mule apps
Anypoint MQ in trial edition
- Detail
- Not available; needs the MQ add-on
Partner Manager transports
- Detail
- AS2, HTTP, HTTPS, SFTP, FTP
Sources for this section (7)
- Mule Runtime Engine Overviewdocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Runtime Managerdocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- About Design Centerdocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Anypoint Design Centerwww.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Exam Guidehelp.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Anypoint MQ Overviewdocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Partner Managerdocs.mulesoft.com (opens in a new tab)
- Which Design Center permission does a user need besides the Exchange Contributor role?
- Why would a Private Cloud Edition customer be unable to target MuleSoft's own cloud?
- When you deploy an app to the cloud through the Runtime Manager console, what runs it in the background?
- Which message formats does Partner Manager handle?
- How does Mule runtime engine upgrade without downtime?
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