Recognize common integration problems, use cases, and technical solutions17% of the exam
Choosing ETL, iPaaS, events or API gateways
How to match a business scenario to the right integration technology: ETL for batch warehouse loads, a hybrid-capable iPaaS for cloud-to-on-premises connectivity, event-driven processing for act-now needs, and API management with a gateway for secured, throttled, discoverable APIs.
Identify the types of integration technologies that are most suitable to realize different integration use cases and business scenarios.
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What the exam expects
- Choose ETL for large, batch-oriented loads into a data warehouse for business intelligence.
- Choose a cloud-native iPaaS with hybrid support when cloud applications must reach systems behind a firewall.
- Choose event-driven processing over scheduled batch when an action must happen the moment state changes.
- Choose API management with an API gateway when consumers must discover, authenticate to and be throttled on an API.
- Explain why having an API is not the same as having an integration.
Key terms:
- ETL: extract, transform, load; batch-oriented data movement, historically for data warehouses.
- Hybrid integration: integrating systems that reside both on-premises and in the cloud.
- Event-driven processing: integrations triggered by real-time state changes rather than fixed schedules.
- API gateway: the runtime that handles traffic management such as throttling, rate limiting and authentication in front of APIs.
Key facts
ETL primary historical use
- Detail
- Business intelligence via data warehouses
ETL orientation
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- Large data volumes in batches
iPaaS processing modes
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- Both real-time streams and batch processing
Hybrid connectivity mechanism
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- Secure data gateways and containerized on-premises agents
Gateway traffic tasks
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- Throttling, rate limiting, automated authentication
API vs API integration
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- An API is the contract; the integration is the live connection
Omni Gateway capacity
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- Up to 1,000 backend APIs per gateway; run several in parallel for high availability
- Which API integration pattern does MuleSoft suggest for sending website lead forms into a CRM?
- Why do modern iPaaS platforms use message brokers and webhooks for events?
- When does the Omni Gateway runtime act, and what does the control plane do?
- How should an integration stay within a provider's rate limits?
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