Managing web and event-driven APIs on Anypoint
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.
Select features of Anypoint Platform for designing and managing web and event-driven application programming interfaces (APIs).
~8 min read · 12 practice questions
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, API Manager, Configuring instances, Omni Gateway).
Key facts
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- Design Center, Exchange and API Governance support 2.0 and 2.6.
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- Instances cannot yet be managed; configure non-managed instances in Exchange.
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- Up to 10 MB.
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- One environment each; not across environments or business groups.
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- Runtime and upstream/downstream URIs.
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- One API version, one or more API instances.
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- JAR with logic plus YAML with parameters and metadata.
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- Cached on the file system for offline availability.
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- Needs an SLA-based rate-limiting or throttling policy.
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- State changes in both directions; email notification.
- 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?
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