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API Instances Across Environments
Choose environment boundaries for managed API instances, distinguish promotion from deployment and plan permissions and consumer transitions.
Make appropriate use of API instances and environments in API Manager, taking into account the nature of the API and the underlying data and system.
~6 min read · 5 practice questions
What the exam expects
- Choose an API instance's environment using its operational purpose and underlying systems.
- Distinguish an API version, an instance label and an instance identifier.
- Plan promotion permissions, endpoint changes and application deployment separately.
- Explain classification and deprecation without confusing either with deletion.
An environment isolates deployment and administration; an API instance is the managed API configuration in that context; an instance label identifies the chosen instance; promotion copies its definition across environments; deprecation closes new access-contract creation while preserving existing contracts (Environment concepts, Promotion, Deprecation).
Key facts
Environment isolation
- Detail
- Testing can occur separately from production.
Environment type
- Detail
- Cannot change after creation; a rename does not convert it.
Unclassified instances
- Detail
- Earlier permissions apply until classification; environment permissions apply afterward.
Promotion permission
- Detail
- Manage APIs Configuration plus view/manage permissions for included entities.
Promoted identity
- Detail
- Label remains; instance ID changes.
Deployment boundary
- Detail
- Promotion copies the definition, not running applications.
Target review
- Detail
- Review and update runtime and endpoint configuration as needed.
Deprecation
- Detail
- Existing contracts remain active; no new contracts can be created.
- When reviewing API Manager search results, which indicator identifies a deprecated instance?
- Why should an administrator use role permissions when granting environment access?
- When considering a runtime registered in Design, why is a Runtime Manager deployment inappropriate?
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