MuleSoft Catalyst Consultant Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

A retailer is starting an integration program after several project failures caused by unclear scope and changing requirements. The sponsor wants a repeatable approach that aligns business outcomes to an API-led delivery plan and provides artifacts the team can reuse. Which Catalyst activity is the best starting point to create alignment and a shared baseline for delivery?

A financial services team is using Catalyst to plan an API program. Multiple business units use the term “customer” differently (prospect, account holder, policy owner), leading to conflicting requirements and data mapping issues. What is the most appropriate Catalyst technique to reduce ambiguity and enable consistent API design and reuse?

A healthcare provider is implementing API-led connectivity. They need to expose patient appointment capabilities to multiple consumer apps while shielding consumers from frequent EHR vendor changes. They also need consistent business rules (eligibility checks, appointment rules) reusable across channels. Which layering best fits API-led connectivity?

A company must publish an Orders API for internal reuse. Consumers include a mobile app and a call center app, both needing different response shapes. The team also anticipates adding a new ERP next year. Which design approach best supports reuse and change tolerance?

A logistics company is integrating with a partner who sends shipment updates. The partner sometimes retries messages, which can cause duplicate updates. The company needs to ensure processing is safe to repeat and does not create duplicate shipment events downstream. Which integration pattern best addresses this requirement?

A bank exposes an API that aggregates data from three downstream systems. During peak load, one downstream system frequently times out, causing the entire API to fail and impacting customer-facing apps. The bank wants to improve resilience while still returning partial data when acceptable. What is the best solution approach?

An enterprise is migrating from nightly batch integrations to near-real-time event-driven updates for customer address changes. Multiple internal systems need the updates, and the team wants to minimize coupling between publishers and subscribers while supporting future consumers. Which pattern best fits?

A company is standardizing APIs across teams. They frequently see breaking changes introduced without consumer coordination. Leadership wants a governance approach that enables reuse while allowing teams to deliver independently. Which practice best addresses this?

During delivery, a team is asked to onboard a second line of business as a new consumer of an existing Process API. The new consumer needs an additional field and slightly different validation rules, but the existing consumers must not break. What is the best next step?

A program team is delivering multiple APIs across squads. They struggle with inconsistent security policies, duplicated connectors, and varying logging/monitoring approaches. They want to improve delivery consistency without slowing teams significantly. What is the best approach?