Describe the components and benefits of Anypoint Platform for API management10% of the exam
API Manager, API Governance and API Experience Hub
What API Manager, the embedded Mule Gateway, API Governance and API Experience Hub each do for a managed API: contracts, policies, alerts and API groups; rulesets and conformance; and developer portals.
Identify the primary components of Anypoint Platform and their benefits for API management.
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What the exam expects
- Name the Anypoint component that fits an API management need: API Manager to secure and run instances, API Governance to check conformance, API Experience Hub to engage consumers.
- Describe how a client application gets access: request in Exchange, approval in API Manager, a contract enforced by policies.
- Pick the right API Manager feature for a requirement: policies, SLA tiers, instance alerts or an API group.
- Explain why a Mule application can take API Manager policies without a separate proxy.
Key terms:
- API instance: an API configuration deployed on Omni Gateway or Mule Gateway.
- Contract: how a client application consumes an API.
- API group: a collection of API instances that act as a single unit under one client ID.
- Governance ruleset: rules applied to API metadata to find conformance issues.
Key facts
Where access is approved
- Detail
- Instance owner in API Manager, or automatically by configuration
Contract enforcement
- Detail
- SLA enforcement or client enforcement policies
SLA tiers need
- Detail
- An SLA-based rate-limiting or throttling policy
Instance alert types
- Detail
- Policy Violation, Request Count, Response Code, Response Time
Alert trigger
- Detail
- Only on a state change; one email on alert, one on resolve
API group permission
- Detail
- API Group Administrator
Policies on a Mule app
- Detail
- Embedded Mule Gateway plus Autodiscovery
Instance conformance
- Detail
- Missing policies or TLS contexts, reported in API Manager and API Governance
- Why might a newly created instance alert miss its first problem?
- When does an SLA tier actually limit requests?
- When is a proxy application the typical choice for Mule Gateway policies?
- Which Salesforce product powers API Experience Hub portals?
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