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Design, implement and manage API lifecycle stages
The three stages of MuleSoft's product-centric API lifecycle and the steps inside each (design, simulate, feedback and validate; build and test; secure, deploy, monitor, troubleshoot and manage), traced through MuleSoft's build-an-API tutorial.
Identify and describe the steps of the design, implement, and management stages of MuleSoft's recommended product-centric API lifecycle.
~6 min read · 5 practice questions ·
What the exam expects
- Put the three product-centric lifecycle stages in order: design, implementation, management.
- Place a task in its stage, including the four design tasks, the two implementation steps and the five management steps.
- Explain why a mock, an interactive console and developer feedback belong to design, not implementation.
- Describe what MuleSoft's tutorial does first in design (explore existing specs in Exchange) and how it continues through build, test, deploy and monitor.
Key terms:
- Full lifecycle API management: overseeing an API from its creation to retirement across its full life span.
- API contract: the "user interface" of the API, how it looks and behaves, created first in a design-first approach.
- API spec: a definition of an API's functional and expected behavior that people and software can read.
- Mocking Service: the API Console feature that tests a spec before it is implemented.
Key facts
Stage order
- Detail
- Design, implementation, management
Full lifecycle span
- Detail
- From creation to retirement
Design tasks
- Detail
- Design, Simulate, Feedback, Validate
Management steps
- Detail
- Secure, Deploy, Monitor, Troubleshoot, Manage
Tutorial spec format
- Detail
- OAS 3.0, in Anypoint Code Builder
Spec test before code
- Detail
- Mocking Service in the API Console
CloudHub 2.0 version
- Detail
- Requires a release version, not a snapshot
Runtime Manager logs
- Detail
- Filter by INFO, WARN or ERROR; last 30 days
- Why does the tutorial remove
-SNAPSHOTfrom the project version before deploying? - When the tutorial tests a spec before implementing it, which feature does it use?
- Which three aspects of an application building block does MuleSoft say each have a unique lifecycle?
- What does the Simulate task of design model?
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