# Managing web and event-driven APIs on Anypoint

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Choose the Anypoint Platform feature for each API task: AsyncAPI design in API Designer and Exchange, Anypoint MQ for queue access, and API Manager instances, environments, policies, SLA tiers, analytics and alerts for managed web APIs.

- Certification: Salesforce MuleSoft Platform Integration Architect
- Exam section: Initiating integration solutions on the Anypoint Platform
- Study guide: https://www.certifyforce.com/study-guide/mulesoft-platform-integration-architect

**Official exam objective:**

> Select features of Anypoint Platform for designing and managing web and event-driven application programming interfaces (APIs).

## What the exam expects

- Select API Designer and Exchange to create, import, edit, document and publish AsyncAPI contracts, and read the events, channels and transport layers separately.
- Recognize where event-driven APIs stop being managed: non-managed instances in Exchange, and Anypoint MQ's REST API for non-Mule clients.
- Model managed web APIs with API versions, API instances and environments in API Manager.
- Explain how policy assets are built, delivered, cached and enforced, and what contracts and SLA tiers do and do not control.
- Pick the API Manager chart or API alert that supplies the evidence an operations question needs.

**AsyncAPI**: an open-source, technology-agnostic language that describes messaging interfaces. **API instance**: a configuration of an API deployed on Omni Gateway (formerly Flex Gateway, an Envoy-based lightweight API gateway) or Mule Gateway. **Environment**: an independent deployment stage for APIs and applications. **SLA tier**: a category of user access defined for an API. **Non-managed instance**: an Exchange entry, with a name and URL, for an instance API Manager does not manage ([AsyncAPI specs](https://docs.mulesoft.com/design-center/design-async-api), [API Manager](https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-manager/latest/latest-overview-concept), [Configuring instances](https://docs.mulesoft.com/exchange/to-configure-api-settings), [Omni Gateway](https://docs.mulesoft.com/gateway/latest/)).

## Key facts

| Fact | Detail | Source |
|---|---|---|
| AsyncAPI versions | Design Center, Exchange and API Governance support 2.0 and 2.6. | [AsyncAPI support](https://docs.mulesoft.com/release-notes/platform/event-driven-api) |
| AsyncAPI management | Instances cannot yet be managed; configure non-managed instances in Exchange. | [AsyncAPI support](https://docs.mulesoft.com/release-notes/platform/event-driven-api) |
| Anypoint MQ payload | Up to 10 MB. | [Anypoint MQ](https://docs.mulesoft.com/mq/) |
| MQ connected apps | One environment each; not across environments or business groups. | [Anypoint MQ](https://docs.mulesoft.com/mq/) |
| Instance settings | Runtime and upstream/downstream URIs. | [API Manager](https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-manager/latest/latest-overview-concept) |
| Version to instances | One API version, one or more API instances. | [Policies overview](https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-gateway/policies-policy-overview) |
| Policy asset | JAR with logic plus YAML with parameters and metadata. | [Policies overview](https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-gateway/policies-policy-overview) |
| Policy cache | Cached on the file system for offline availability. | [Policies overview](https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-gateway/policies-policy-overview) |
| SLA enforcement | Needs an SLA-based rate-limiting or throttling policy. | [API Manager](https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-manager/latest/latest-overview-concept) |
| API alert triggers | State changes in both directions; email notification. | [API Manager](https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-manager/latest/latest-overview-concept) |

## Check yourself

- When does Anypoint MQ appear in Anypoint Platform after the add-on is purchased?
- Why does API Manager show an API as Inactive rather than Unregistered?
- Which message brokers can a scaffolded AsyncAPI implementation use?
- What is the largest payload Anypoint MQ accepts?

## Sources

- [AsyncAPI Specifications](https://docs.mulesoft.com/design-center/design-async-api)
- [AsyncAPI Support to Implement Event-Driven Architecture](https://docs.mulesoft.com/release-notes/platform/event-driven-api)
- [Configuring Instances](https://docs.mulesoft.com/exchange/to-configure-api-settings)
- [Anypoint MQ Overview](https://docs.mulesoft.com/mq/)
- [API Manager Overview](https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-manager/latest/latest-overview-concept)
- [Mule Gateway Policies Overview](https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-gateway/policies-policy-overview)
- [Omni Gateway Overview](https://docs.mulesoft.com/gateway/latest/)

## About the full unit

The "Core concepts", "Exam traps" and "Worked scenario" sections of this unit, its 12 linked practice questions, and unlimited timed mock exams are included with the MuleSoft Platform Integration Architect pack (USD $19): https://www.certifyforce.com/practice-exams