Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Associate

After the focussed set of certifications to achieve the Application Architect certification I wanted to do something different, and perhaps a bit easier, before tackling the three further certifications required for the System Architect cert. Salesforce have been quietly expanding the Associate offerings. I already had two but there were two more available. I decided on the MuleSoft one as that is something I really thought I should know more about. Let’s see how I got on.

I found both the Salesforce Associate and AI Associate certifications pretty easy. I’ve been using the platform pretty much every day for 3 years so the first was basically just stuff I knew. I’d done all the AI trailheads and have a degree that was 50% AI from 20+ years ago. So the AI one was fine. But I’ve barely even seen MuleSoft!

The Certificate is about 50% the philosophy of MuleSoft and the approach they want to take to enterprise development. I found this pretty interesting. But I did actually need to study and think about what the material was saying about organisational alignment and structure. A lot of what it said really hit home with me. I’ve seen the disfunction of a very large enterprise building huge monolithic apps first hand!

The other 50% is mostly a very high level overview of the MuleSoft platform and how it delivers on the approach and philosophy. There is no hands-on element. Just learning the main building blocks and what they are used for. A general knowledge of API terms and patterns is helpful here. Especially REST APIs and how they work.

The pass mark for this exam is 70%. As you can see I was comfortably above this with a couple of weeks studying. I’m sure my integration experience helped here but you can definitely go from next to no Mule knowledge to passing this (and gaining that Mule basic knowledge) pretty easily. Allowing for the section weightings in the exam I scored about 87%.

I’d recommend this certification for anyone with a bit of curiosity about the Mule platform. Or anyone just wanting to increase the number of certifications they hold!