Impact of Primary Node Failure on Database Polling and HTTP Request Handling

Vendor: MuleSoft
Product: MCIA-Level-1
Update on: Jul 28, 2025
Questions: 273

MuleSoft MCIA-Level-1 Question Answer

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A Mule application is deployed to a cluster of two customer-hosted Mute runtimes. The Mute application has a flow that polls a database and another flow with an HTTP Listener.

HTTP clients send HTTP requests directly to individual cluster nodes.

What happens to database polling and HTTP request handling in the time after the primary (master) node of the cluster has railed, but before that node is restarted?

Database polling continues Only HTTP requests sent to the remaining node continue to be accepted

Database polling stops All HTTP requests continue to be accepted

Database polling continues All HTTP requests continue to be accepted, but requests to the failed node Incur increased latency

Database polling stops All HTTP requests are rejected