About the Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Catalyst Consultant Exam

The Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Catalyst Consultant Exam is designed for individuals performing business outcome identification, engagement planning, and developing composable architecture solutions following the Catalyst methodology.

 

Audience Description: Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Catalyst Consultant

Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Catalyst Consultant candidates should have the knowledge, skills, and experience to:

• Identify and define the key pillars and concepts of Catalyst including playbooks and delivery approaches, assets and their lifecycles, terms of use, types of engagements and phases, delivery models, and typical roles and responsibilities.
• Organize business environment drivers, organizational vision and strategic goals, objectives, key performance indicators (KPIs), and initiatives into a logical network of influences.
• Apply Catalyst principles to an architectural design to maximize reuse and reuse potential without neglecting short-term objectives.
• Apply organizational context (driver, goals, objectives) to define engagement roadmaps for achieving business outcomes.
• Explain concepts of Center for Enablement (C4E) foundational assets, the process of promoting C4E, and sustaining an operational C4E.
• Explain the benefits associated with adopting a Catalyst approach and tailor messaging based on a stakeholder’s interests.

Typical job roles of a Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Catalyst Consultant candidate may include:

• Architects
• Developers
• Technical Project Managers
• Integration Product Owners
• IT professionals
• IT operations

 

Purpose of This Exam Guide

This exam guide is designed to help you prepare for the Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Catalyst Consultant Exam. This guide provides information about the target audience, the recommended training and documentation, and a complete list of exam objectives. Salesforce highly recommends a combination of on-the-job experience and self-study to maximize your chances of passing the exam.

 

About the Exam

Read on for details about the Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Catalyst Consultant Exam.

• Content: 45 multiple-choice questions and up to five unscored questions
• Time allotted to complete the exam: 90 minutes
• Passing score: 70%
• Version: Exam questions align to the Spring ’24 release
• Registration fee: US$200, JPY ¥30,000, plus applicable taxes as required per local law
• Retake fee: US$100, JPY ¥30,000, plus applicable taxes as required per local law
• Delivery options: Proctored exam delivered onsite at a testing center or in an online environment; find more information on scheduling an exam here.
• References: No hard-copy or online materials may be referenced during the exam.
• Prerequisite: None

This exam may contain up to five additional unscored questions to gather performance data. Unscored questions are randomly integrated and have no impact on your final exam result.

 

Exam Outline

The Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Catalyst Consultant Exam measures a candidate’s knowledge and skills related to the following objectives. Candidates should be able to apply key concepts of the Catalyst methodology when performing business outcome identification, engagement planning, and developing composable architecture solutions. Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Catalyst Consultant candidates should have knowledge of architecting to Catalyst principles, realizing business outcomes, implementing a Center for Enablement (C4E), and designing composable solutions.

Apply Catalyst principles: 9%

• Classify given activities, concepts, or assets as belonging to Catalyst Methodology, Catalyst Knowledge Hub (KH), Catalyst service offering.
• Describe the terms of use and lifecycle of Catalyst itself.
• Explain the defining characteristics and principles of Catalyst.
• Identify Catalyst roles given engagement responsibilities.

 

Leverage Catalyst Knowledge Hub: 7%

• Explain the structure and types of Catalyst-related content in Knowledge Hub: assets/articles, playbooks and their steps, delivery approaches and their steps.
• Explain the types of assets in Knowledge Hub: standards, best practices, examples, tools, and templates.
• Explain the difference between playbooks and delivery approaches and select the right one for a given purpose.

 

• Articulate the role architecture plays in aligning business and technology.
• Organize business environment drivers, organizational vision, and strategic goals, objectives, KPIs, and initiatives into a logical network of influences.
• Analyze the value of each principle of architecting with Catalyst for projects and engagements.
• Articulate the role of integration architecture in realizing end-to-end business processes.
• Create a backlog of architectural significance to capture engagement scope in a way that is conducive to architecting in a Catalyst context.
• Critique too narrow engagement scope definitions and objections to their widening.
• Architect to maximize reuse and reuse potential without neglecting short-term objectives.
• Analyze the advantages that architecting on top of a digital platform brings to projects.
• Apply an API-led approach to connectivity on the conceptual and logical level, making idiomatic use of interaction types and patterns.
• Architect in the context of projects to support the productization of APIs.
• Architect to achieve both short-term outcomes and long-term goals, in a balanced way.

 

Realize business outcomes with a Catalyst approach: 11%

• Articulate key terminology, business and platform capability benefits, common mistakes when defining business outcomes, the Catalyst Business Outcome Playbook.
• Discover and define business outcomes.
• Align business outcomes with stakeholders.
• Align engagement scope with stakeholders.
• Measure and track business outcomes.

 

Implement a Center for Enablement (C4E): 15%

• Describe what C4E is and explain its value proposition.
• Explain the difference between C4E and Center of Excellence (CoE).
• Describe the C4E organizational models.
• Describe the components of building a C4E.
• Explain the concepts of C4E foundational assets.
• Explain the importance and process of promoting a C4E.
• Explain activities to maintain an operational and relevant C4E.

 

Position and reframe with Catalyst methodology: 11%

• Position the benefits of a Catalyst approach to stakeholders.
• Reframe the value of a Catalyst approach when the team is diverging from a Catalyst approach.
• Resolve common objections to a Catalyst approach.

 

Design composable solutions: 20%

• Describe the principles and properties of composability.
• Identify the generic patterns, interaction types, and interaction patterns on the conceptual and logical levels.
• Apply these generic patterns in a catalyst context to the most common integration architectural styles and designs such as API-led. EDA, Asynchronous, Batch, ETL, Multi-way synchronization, etc.
• Address the cross-cutting concerns such as idempotency, transactionality, reliability, etc., in the solution design adhering to Catalyst principles.
• Identify between composability and low coupling, high cohesion as well as the benefits and implications of DDD and Bounded Contexts.
• Apply principles of API-led approach to connectivity to common integration patterns beyond simple RESTful APIs, incl. application integration scenarios, EDAs, batch, etc.
• Articulate the benefits of Automation and Intelligently identify the use cases that benefit from it.