Mulesoft Interview Q&A

1. input[a,a,b,b]--> out put should be like {a:2,b:2}

2. can we restrict number of input parameters at RAML level, any validation at RAML level?

3. difference btwn put and patch[5:57 pm, 19/04/2021] Mulesoft Bala: diff btwn post and put?

4. explain securities policies you worked on?

5. OpenAM OAuth 2.0 Token Enforcement.

6. Rate Limiting.

7. Rate-Limiting SLA.

8. Tokenization.

9. patch for only one single filed put for total

10. PUT/PATCH — modify

11.: considet that u dont have api manager component, if we want secur our api , how can we
secure?

12. which cloud of salesforce you worked on and use cases ?

13. a flow has 2 child flows, in one child flow there is on error propagate component and another is
child has issue of internal server error 500 and on error continue, now explain the execution?

14. child has on error continue and parent has on error propagate, explain execution?

15. both parent and child has both on error continue and once has external error occured while
connecting?

16. reading a file of 100 MB of dat, any problem if u process directly, explain?

17. reading a data from file and inserting into salesforce, while insertion error occured in between so
how can u ensure the reliability that my data inserts successfully?

18. if target system is down for sometime and how can u ensure the data reaches to target system?

19. in scatter gather there are 3 routes , in 3rd route error occured then what would be output?

20. in choice componet, 3 (2 routes are true and 3rd is default), if my request is true then what will
be output?

21. by mistakenly(sensitive info) commited one file in git, want to revert that file from central repo
how you do it?

22. Why do you use esb in your payment app looks like it doesn’t need mule esb this question asked
by l n t after explaining project... how to justify our ans...

23. Explain api manager n auto discovery steps

24. In which scenario u used reduce function and what is $$, $ in it.
25. What is your api type you developed and how many types u created so far?

26. How to find count of number elements in array in dw expn

27. What connectors u used in your payment project ?.. pls guide to tell more connectors as part of
our proj because mostly interviewers focusing on proj part more?

28. What contracts you used in project?

29. What is the best practices you followed in your project implementation? And when writing raml
too?

30. Difference b/w Traits and Resource Type?

31. have u used bulk operation in sfdc ? when do you used?

32. what Kind of security policies?

33. tell me about Scaling

34. Life Cycle of raml?

35. Deployment Method?

36. When do u used map and map object?

37. Sfdc Operation ?

38. what about sap?

39. The difference between microservices and SOA ESB?

40. Raml consists of what?

41. client id enforcement

42. basic authentication

43. oauth policy

44. Most of the interviewers asking recent days what is difference between For each and parallel For
each?

45. I have a requirment to access private network data from my cloud application how can I do
access that? For example I have SAP is on private network and my mule application is on cloud how
can I access Onprem SAP system from cloud?

46. I am using a connector and do not want to wait until the processing completes as it taking more
time , In the mean time i want to send the response back to client,how will do that?

47. while sending records to SFDC, in each record there is a chance to have sfdcId and no sfdcid if
sfdcId is there we need to process those recrods as update otherwise new, how will you do in the
code?

48. I have a requirement to process the transactions to database without disturbing the main flow.
How you will achieve this?
49. How you will filter the records? Let’s say i want to process the records where age > 18. How you
will achieve that in Batch Job?

50. How to reprocess failed records in mule?

51. How do we store the encrypt value in the Configuration file?

52. Have you used file connector? How to handle if file size is 1 GB and heap space is only 712 MB;
how will you process that file.

53. I hope this questions will help you in future .

54. what is the life cycle of api in Mulesoft?

55. suppose I'm sending one request from postman to our api and that request in JSON payload so
how you validate that request in api?

56. what is difference between for each and parallel for each?

57. what is system parameters and when we used?

58. witch type of issues were you faced while developing in your previous project and how you
overcome with that?

59. explain your project in detail and what all interface you developed?

60. suppose I'm sending one json request in postman that is in array each consists of objects and
each objects consists of properties like 1,first-name 2, Last name 3,age so I want only these
properties, if I send 4th r 5th one then it shouldn't be accepte my api just I want to restricte the
number of api how you can restrict ?

61. what is resource type?

62. how you creat that resource type?

63. what is the difference between resource type and library?

64. suppose I'm having a 1000 record in a file and I want insert those 1000 record in my database
how you insert that file into database?

65. how many modules we have in database?

66. what is the past template?

67. what is the difference between uri parameters and query parameters?

68. suppose team committed one code but I want remove that code so how you remove?

69. what is the connection pooling?

70. what is the acknowledgement and how many types of acknowledgement modes are there?

71. Small introduction and then about past company and a bit about project.

72. Not much from project but they asked me about my role and responsibility, how I am getting
work, which project development model I am following, how we do deployment
i am working as individual contributor, taking requirements from onsite team and do development
based on requirements. Once on-site team take requirements from business people or clients they
create jira story for us. Based on that we create RAML and publish on exchange. Then ba people
valued RAML on exchange and parallely we start development also. Once we complete development
we use bit bucket for code checking and do unit testing. After unit testing we deploy this code and
Dev environment and do testing. Then deploy on sit and testing team do testing.

We follow agile approach of development and use to get 3-4 api in a sprint of 2 weeks. For
deployment I mentioned we do manual deployment but we are working on cicd part, still in
progress.

73. Then question on mulesoft components and connectors.

74. What all operations you used in salesforce , I answered salesforce query operation and
salesforce apex rest api call. Apart of that I used http request to call there native api. To call netave
api we need to call salesforce first time to get token and second time to get data

75. When you will use batch processing and when you will use for each

Ans: Will use batch processing to process huge amount of data and if we have scenario even if some
records processing fail continue process other record. For each we use when we want to process
payload having reapting element in sequential way.

76. What is spike control and throttling policy

Ans: Spike control is api policy to limit Number of requests and after limit we put msg in queue .
Throttling is process where we cache external call and next call we take data from cache instead of
calling api

77. we have experience api can handle 5k request in a day , how you will handle if you get 8k
request?

Ans: We can handle in two way. 1) apply rate limiting policy and handle 5k request and discard 3k
request or 2) do horizontal scaling and deploy one more instance of that project. Now we have two
worker so can handle 5k + 5k request , total 10k

78. we have expressed api having rate limiting policy and can handle 100 requests in a minute and
related system api have sla and can call external api max 75 time in a minute. How you will handle
this

Ans: Either we can apply spike control in system api or we can do msg thoratling( store response in
cache and for same request get response from cache instead of doing external call)

79. What all policy you used in your project

Ans: I worked on jwt token, rate limiting, basic with, and spike control. I mentioned custom policy
but you don’t mention, very difficult process . I don’t think for you guy for now easy to explain but
custom policy in short if we create out on policy and deploy on cloudhub

80. How to remove one element from Json object

81. How to concat all data of json object

Ans: Now() - | PT1d|

83. How to convert time in particular time zone

Ans: Now() >> Asia/Kolkata

84. if target system is not ready then how you complete your development

Ans: We can create mock api in soapui or other tool and will call that or will put that external call
inside try block with on error continue and will mock payload using message transform and will
continue development

85. In RAML if you add new resources how you add in you project

86. How to monitor API’s other than logs

87. How to skip null values from payload?

89. Foreach payload before and after

90. Foreach variable before and after

91. Same variable changed inside foreach then what is value of payload after foreach

92. When to use scatter gather

93. Have u worked on MQ's

94. What is $ and $$

95. What are functions u have used in dw

96. What is the process u follow api life cycle

97. Do u follow cicd or how do u deploy

98. What are type of policies

99. What is diff between ratelimitting and throttling

100. How to use splitby

101. What are types of error handling

102. Explain munit

103. Can you handle errors in munit testing

104. What is parallel foreach.

105. When to use parallel foreach and scatter gather

106. If in scatter gather a,b,c flows are there and variable is modified in flow B then what is variable
outside

107. If variable is modified in a and b flows then what is variable outside

108. What is async scope

109. Gave dataweave payload in object form and asked to upper of only keys from it

110. What is diff between pluck and map object

111. How to skip null values

112. How to skip one key value pair in output payload

We can use - to remove specific key:value pairs. for example,

Ans:

%dw 2.0

output application/json

var details = {
 "name": "NaGG",

"ssn": "ABCD1234",

"company": "MuleSoft",

"age": "25 Years"

---

empDetails : details - "age"

113.He asked me about RDBMS

114.Data modelling

115.Cananonical data modelling

116.How much u rate urself in sql

117.Then he asked about api life cycle

118.How to create custom connectors

119.how to disable logs in cloudhub deployment

120. How to enable logs

121. What is the code expression you write for enable and disable of logs

122. How do you disable few components or few connectors during your deployment in cloudhub

123. What is batch processing

124. Explain whole process happening in the background for batch processing

125. What is aggregator

126. Whats output in on complete phase in batch processer

127. What are security policies used by you

128. What is spike control

129. Give example for spike control and rate limitting

130. What are components used by you in raml

131. What is library

132. What is fragment

134. What is security schemes

135. How to call trait in raml

136. What is microservice

137. What are the rules for considering ur feature as microservice

138. Exact theortical definition of microservice and rules

139. What is api url semantics

140. Which resource need to be taken first in ur path... Which end point should come first how will
you decide that.

141. What are permutation and combinations you do in selecting the end points in your api url

142. what is thread pooling and auto tuning?

143. what are resource level poilicies an explain?

144. what is salesforcebulk api?

145. how you process ftp to salesforce with bulk api?

146. Project explanation

147. Horizontal and vertical scaling and advantages

148. Ratelimiting

149. Api life cycle

150. How many types of deployment

151. How many ways to deploy

152. where do you deploy

153. agile or waterfall

154. agile methodologies followed

155. scrum retro

156. sprint planning

157. user stories

158. choice

159. Error handling

160. scatter gather

161. Batch processing

162. flow referenece

164. challenges faced

165. domain

166. security policies

167. api monitoring

168. Difference between cloud-Hub and On-premise deployment modal

169. he gave a simple requirement and asked me to explain all xpapi and sapi creation raml ,
development, deployment

User gives employee id and you need to send employee details for that id. How will u write ur raml
and what is ur sapi and what is ur bapi and xpapi and how do u deploy

170. Oauth policy

171. How many ways to deploy ur api

172. How are u calling ur apis in different layers

173. Object store

174. How to handle errors in batch processing

175. Anypoint monitoring

176. How do you do logging

177. What are the response codes

400

404

500

200

202

178. What operations and functions used in dataweave

180. Scatter gather

2 nodes successful

1 node failed

Whats output

181. Choice

2 true conditions satisfy which node will be processed

182. There are 2 insert statements

1 insert is successfully completed

2nd insert failed

For whatever records second insert failed, i want to rollback insert from 1st inserted table also how
do u do

183. 2 inserts are there... suddenly application crashed... how do you handle with missing records

184. I have a input payload before foreach 1,2,3

I have done addition like payload + 10

What is output payload of foreach

185. Same in parallel foreach

186. I have a variable a c oustide scatter gather

I modfied variable a in node 1

I added another varuable b in node 2

Whats variable a value outside

And how many variables will be there

187.same

I modified variable a in node 1

Modified variable a in node 2

Whats variable a value after scattergather

188. I am expecting 100mb files as input to my payload

Suddenly i got 1 gb payload

How to handle that large payload

189. I have a variable before parallel foreach and a variable inside parallel foreach

How many variables will be after parallel foreach

Then how do i handle it

191. I am getting multiple similar requests from end users... i have ratelimiting policy as 100 requests
for 1 minute

I dont want to keep waiting users or i dont want to send too many requests error to users how to
handle

192. In batch processing i have 100 records and 10 records failed, i want to send the failed records
status to end users how to do

193. What is HTTP caching?

194. What is Resource type and Trait in RAML, how do you use it?

195. What is library in RAML,how to use it.

196. why we use Map and give a scenario?

197. why we use Map object?

198. what is difference b/w mapObject and Pluck.?

199. what are flatten and Reduce give some examples.

200. how to call subflow using dataweave

201. Explian about API LED architecture

202. what are the layers you worked upon.

203. what security policies used at APIL level.

204. Explain about Object store, why use it?

205. what all authentications used?

206. How do you call configuration properties in dataweave?

207. when to use VM connector flow?

208. how do you do Load balancing

209. when to use Persistent queues

210. what is output of batch processing on complete phase?