18.43What to say if you've never implemented that exact Mule component

For example they ask:

“Have you configured Salesforce CDC in Mule?”

A good answer is:

“I've worked with the Mule-to-Salesforce integration behavior and understand CDC as an event-driven source rather than polling. I haven't personally configured that connector source from scratch, so I'd use the connector metadata/docs for the exact subscription configuration. Architecturally I'd handle replay, duplicate delivery, ordering/versioning and downstream idempotency.”

That's much better than pretending.