Updated for Winter ’26
Last Updated: November 2025 · Exam Code: Mule-Dev-202 · Version: Winter ’26
This guide is aligned with the Salesforce MuleSoft Hyperautomation Developer exam (formerly Hyperautomation Specialist), a senior-level certification that validates your ability to build hyperautomation solutions across Salesforce and MuleSoft using APIs, RPA, MuleSoft Composer, Salesforce Flow, Flow Orchestration and Anypoint Platform.
⚡ Why the MuleSoft Hyperautomation Developer Exam Is Unique
Unlike the core MuleSoft Developer certs that focus primarily on APIs and integrations, this exam targets end-to-end business automation across Salesforce and MuleSoft products.
Design automations that combine MuleSoft RPA bots, API-led connectivity and legacy systems that can’t be integrated via APIs alone.
Use MuleSoft Composer, Salesforce Flow and Flow Orchestration to stitch systems, people, and tasks into complete hyperautomation journeys.
Monitor and govern automations across Anypoint Platform, RPA, and Salesforce, ensuring reliability and compliance.
Understand where AI/Eintein and decisioning fit into automations to reduce manual work and increase straight-through processing.
Salesforce MuleSoft Hyperautomation Developer Exam Guide
Exam Code: Mule-Dev-202 · Senior-Level Hyperautomation Credential
Learn the full MuleSoft Hyperautomation Developer syllabus – domains, exam weightage, tools, study plan and exam-style scenario questions to help you pass the Mule-Dev-202 exam on your first attempt.
📊 Mule-Dev-202 Exam at a Glance
Note: Exam length, format and costs are based on the official exam guide and community summaries. Always confirm details on the Salesforce / Trailhead exam page before scheduling.
🎯 Exam Objectives & Approximate Weightage
1. Hyperautomation Solution Design Across Salesforce & MuleSoft
22%Design end-to-end hyperautomation solutions that connect people, systems, and processes across Salesforce clouds, MuleSoft APIs, RPA bots and external systems.
- Identify business processes suitable for hyperautomation vs simple automation.
- Choose between APIs, RPA, Composer, Flow, and Flow Orchestration in a given scenario.
- Describe hyperautomation reference architectures and patterns (event-driven, API-led, human-in-the-loop).
- Align automations with governance, data residency, and compliance requirements.
- Estimate ROI and value of candidate hyperautomation use cases.
Expect lots of scenario questions describing a messy, multi-system process. Your job is to propose the most appropriate combination of APIs, RPA bots, and Salesforce automation tools.
2. APIs & Anypoint Platform in Hyperautomation Projects
18%Use MuleSoft Anypoint Platform to design, build, deploy, and manage APIs that act as reusable building blocks for hyperautomation solutions.
- Describe composable building blocks (experience/process/system APIs) and how to reuse them.
- Publish, share, and discover APIs and assets through Anypoint Exchange.
- Use API policies (rate limiting, spike control, SLA tiers) to safely expose APIs.
- Understand Mule app deployment options (CloudHub, hybrid, on-prem) in a hyperautomation context.
- Use mocking, test consoles and Exchange to support low-code and RPA teams.
In many questions the “best” answer is to expose a reusable API via Anypoint Platform and allow Flow/Composer/RPA to consume it, not to build siloed point-to-point automations.
3. MuleSoft RPA & MuleSoft Composer
20%Automate tasks in systems without APIs using MuleSoft RPA and connect SaaS apps with MuleSoft Composer, while keeping automations maintainable and secure.
- Identify when to use RPA vs APIs vs Composer integrations.
- Design RPA workflows, selectors, and exception handling for brittle UIs.
- Integrate Composer flows with Salesforce, Anypoint APIs, and external systems.
- Handle security, credentials and secrets for bots and Composer connections.
- Monitor, version, and update bots and Composer flows without breaking business processes.
If a system already has stable APIs, the preferred answer is usually to use APIs, not RPA. RPA is best for legacy apps and niche tasks where APIs are not viable.
4. Salesforce Flow, Flow Orchestration & AI in Hyperautomation
20%Use Salesforce Flow and Flow Orchestration as the glue layer that models complex, long-running business processes, embeds approvals and plugs in AI insights.
- Choose between record-triggered, schedule-triggered, and screen flows for automation steps.
- Use Flow Orchestration for multi-step, human-in-the-loop and cross-system workflows.
- Invoke Mule APIs, RPA bots and Composer flows from Salesforce Flow.
- Incorporate AI/Einstein predictions or decisions into orchestration steps.
- Handle errors, retries, and rollbacks within orchestrations.
Many scenarios mention approvals, SLAs, multiple teams, or long-running processes – these are strong signals that Flow Orchestration is part of the ideal answer.
5. Governance, Security, Monitoring & Operations
20%Ensure hyperautomation solutions are secure, observable, and manageable at scale for both IT and business teams.
- Apply least-privilege security, data masking and proper credential management.
- Use Anypoint Platform monitoring, logging and alerts for Mule apps and APIs.
- Monitor RPA bots, Composer flows and Flow Orchestrations for failures and bottlenecks.
- Design for resiliency, idempotency and safe retries across tools.
- Document and govern automations to avoid “shadow” bots and flows.
Look out for questions framed from an operations, security, or risk perspective. The right answer will emphasize observability, governance and compliance – not just “making it work”.
📝 Sample Mule-Dev-202 Style Questions
Practice with Scenario-Based Questions
These sample questions are simplified, but they mirror the hyperautomation scenarios you can expect on the real MuleSoft Hyperautomation Developer exam. Focus on the reasoning, not memorization.
Question 1 – Choosing RPA vs APIs vs Composer
A healthcare provider uses a 20-year-old desktop app with no APIs to manage claims. The claims team spends hours re-typing approved claim data from Salesforce into this legacy system. The organization wants to reduce manual effort quickly, without waiting for a full replacement of the legacy app.
What is the most appropriate first step in a hyperautomation solution?
A) Build Mule APIs that call the legacy app’s database directly.
B) Use MuleSoft RPA bots to automate data entry into the legacy UI, triggered from Salesforce.
C) Use MuleSoft Composer to connect Salesforce directly to the legacy system via prebuilt connectors.
D) Ask the claims team to export data from Salesforce and import CSV files into the legacy system manually.
✓ Correct Answer: B) MuleSoft RPA bots from Salesforce
The legacy app has no APIs and changing its database directly may be risky. MuleSoft RPA bots can automate UI interactions and be triggered from Salesforce, delivering quick wins while longer-term API modernization is explored.
Question 2 – Anypoint APIs as Composable Blocks
Your company already has well-designed system and process APIs that expose customer and order data. A new hyperautomation initiative needs to orchestrate onboarding across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and an external KYC service. Several low-code teams will build flows and bots on top of this data.
What should you do to support reuse and governance?
A) Let each team build its own direct integrations against the source systems.
B) Publish the existing APIs in Anypoint Exchange with proper documentation, and have all hyperautomation components consume them.
C) Replace the APIs with RPA bots that log into each system.
D) Build separate APIs dedicated only to each Flow or bot implementation.
✓ Correct Answer: B) Publish & reuse APIs via Exchange
Hyperautomation relies on composable building blocks. Publishing the existing APIs in Anypoint Exchange lets Flow, Composer, and RPA teams reuse governed, consistent APIs instead of reinventing integrations.
Question 3 – Flow vs Flow Orchestration
A B2B company wants to automate a complex onboarding journey that includes contract review, credit checks, provisioning in multiple back-end systems, and manual approvals by Finance and Legal. The process can span several days and requires visibility into the current status at any time.
Which Salesforce automation tool is most suitable as the top-level orchestrator?
A) A simple record-triggered Flow only.
B) A scheduled Flow that runs nightly.
C) Flow Orchestration with steps that call Flows, Mule APIs and RPA bots.
D) A single Composer integration using point-to-point connections.
✓ Correct Answer: C) Flow Orchestration
Flow Orchestration is designed for long-running, human-in-the-loop processes with multiple steps, approvals and integrations. It can coordinate Flows, APIs and bots while providing status tracking.
Question 4 – Monitoring and Operations
After launching a hyperautomation solution, business users report that some cases “disappear” in the middle of the process. Parts of the journey run in Mule APIs, RPA bots, Flow, and Composer. There is no single place to see where failures occur.
As the MuleSoft Hyperautomation Developer, which approach best improves observability?
A) Enable DEBUG logging in all components and review raw logs manually.
B) Implement a shared correlation ID injected at the start of the journey and included in logs/monitoring for Mule apps, bots, Flows and Composer.
C) Ask users to email screenshots whenever issues occur.
D) Monitor only the Mule APIs, since they are the core integration layer.
✓ Correct Answer: B) Shared correlation ID across tools
A correlation ID propagated through Mule APIs, RPA bots, Flow and Composer lets operations teams trace a single business transaction end-to-end across multiple platforms and log systems.
Question 5 – Security & Credentials
An automation uses a Mule API to call a banking system, a bot that logs into a legacy UI, and a Composer flow that connects to an HR system. Currently, credentials for all three are hard-coded in configuration and sometimes shared by email between admins.
Which change most improves security and governance?
A) Create a shared spreadsheet with the latest credentials for the team.
B) Configure secure, environment-scoped credential storage for Mule, RPA, and Composer, with role-based access and audit trails.
C) Rotate passwords less frequently to avoid login failures.
D) Move the credentials into Flow variables only.
✓ Correct Answer: B) Centralized, secure credentials
Hyperautomation solutions must use secure, centralized credential management with role-based access, environment separation and auditing, rather than hard-coded secrets or ad-hoc sharing.
💡 Exam Tip: The real exam will mix tools in the same question – Mule APIs, RPA, Composer, Flow and Orchestration. Always step back and ask: Which combination delivers the most resilient, governed and maintainable solution?
📚 4–6 Week Study Plan & Resources
Recommended Learning Path
This plan assumes you already have solid Salesforce/MuleSoft experience. Use the official MuleSoft Hyperautomation Developer trailmix and the Build Salesforce Hyperautomation Solutions with MuleSoft (ADX350) course as anchors.
- Read the official MuleSoft Hyperautomation Developer exam guide and Trailhead overview.
- Complete foundational Trailhead modules on Hyperautomation, MuleSoft RPA, Composer, and Flow.
- Review Anypoint Platform basics: APIs, policies, Exchange, monitoring.
- Start the ADX350 class or equivalent training content.
- Design a realistic business process (onboarding, case management, claims, etc.).
- Expose at least one Mule API via Anypoint and publish it to Exchange.
- Build a Composer flow and at least one RPA bot that leverage the API.
- Use Salesforce Flow + Flow Orchestration to coordinate steps, approvals, and human tasks.
- Add observability: correlation IDs, logging and basic alerts.
- Take 2–3 full-length practice exams in timed mode.
- Track your weak domains (often RPA/Composer security, orchestration design, or operations).
- Re-read tough topics in the official exam guide and ADX350 material.
- Build a 1-page summary of patterns (e.g., when to use RPA vs API vs Flow Orchestration).
💡 Exam-Day Strategy
90 minutes for ~60 questions ≈ 1.5 minutes per question. Don’t get stuck; mark tricky items and revisit them later.
Words like legacy UI, no APIs, human approvals, real-time, regulated industry strongly hint at specific tools or patterns.
Several answers may technically work. Choose the one that best aligns with governance, reuse, security and maintainability.
On review, prioritize questions involving solution design, RPA/Composer, orchestration and operations, since these are the heart of the exam.
❓ Salesforce MuleSoft Hyperautomation Developer – FAQ
1. Who is this certification for?
The Salesforce MuleSoft Hyperautomation Developer certification is for senior-level professionals who design and implement hyperautomation solutions across Salesforce and MuleSoft – combining APIs, RPA, Composer, Flow, and orchestration to automate complex business processes.
2. Do I need other MuleSoft or Salesforce certs first?
There is no formal prerequisite certification for Mule-Dev-202. However, Salesforce recommends solid hands-on experience with MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, Salesforce automation (Flow), and RPA/Composer concepts before attempting this senior-level exam.
3. What is the exam format and passing score?
The exam has around 60 scored multiple-choice/multiple-select questions plus a few unscored ones, with a total duration of 90 minutes. The passing score is typically around 70%, based on the official exam guide and community study resources.
4. How much does the exam cost?
The registration fee is usually USD $200, with a $100 retake fee, plus any applicable taxes in your region.
5. What official resources should I start with?
Start with the official MuleSoft Hyperautomation Developer exam guide and the dedicated Trailhead Hyperautomation Developer trailmix, then follow the Build Salesforce Hyperautomation Solutions with MuleSoft (ADX350) course to get structured training.
6. What score should I target in practice exams?
Although the official passing score is around 70%, aim for at least 80%+ on multiple practice tests before booking the real exam. This buffer helps account for tough questions and exam-day pressure.