Salesforce MuleSoft-Integration-Architect-I Exam With Confidence Using Practice Dumps

To securely handle sensitive properties in a Mule application deployed through a CI/CD pipeline, the properties should be encrypted and stored as global configuration properties. This ensures that sensitive data is not visible in cleartext in Runtime Manager or any other configuration files. The steps are:

Encrypt Sensitive Properties: Use a tool or process to encrypt sensitive property values.

Global Configuration Properties: Store these encrypted values as global configuration properties within the Mule application.

Configuration in Runtime Manager: Ensure that these properties are referenced correctly so that administrators with proper permissions can manage them in Runtime Manager without exposing the sensitive values.

This approach aligns with security best practices and complies with the requirement to hide sensitive properties while allowing administrative control.

References

MuleSoft Documentation on Secure Property Placeholder

Best Practices for Handling Sensitive Data in MuleSoft

Explanation

* If we store Correlation id value in step 1 as Mule event variables/attributes, the values will be cleared after server restart and we want system to be fault tolerant.

* The Correlation ID value in Step 1 should be stored in a persistent object store.

* We don't need to store Correlation ID value in Step 3 to persistent object store. We can store it but as we also need to make application performant. We can avoid this step of accessing persistent object store.

*  Accessing persistent object stores slow down the performance as persistent object stores are by default stored in shared file systems.

*  As the SOAP service is idempotent in nature. In case of any failures , using this Correlation ID saved in first step we can make call to SOAP service and validate the Correlation ID.

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Additional Information:

* Competing Consumers are multiple consumers that are all created to receive messages from a single Point-to-Point Channel. When the channel delivers a message, any of the consumers could potentially receive it. The messaging system's implementation determines which consumer actually receives the message, but in effect the consumers compete with each other to be the receiver. Once a consumer receives a message, it can delegate to the rest of its application to help process the message.

* In case you are unaware about term idempotent re is more info:

Idempotent operations means their result will always same no matter how many times these operations are invoked.

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The advantage of using OAuth 2.0 client credentials and access tokens over only API keys for API authentication is that if the access token is compromised, the client credentials do not have to be reissued.

OAuth 2.0 is a secure protocol for authenticating clients and authorizing them to access protected resources. It works by having the client authenticate with the authorization server and receive an access token, which is then used to authenticate requests to the API. If the access token is compromised, it can be revoked and replaced without needing to reissue the client credentials.