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Overview

The Red Hat Certified Specialist in API Management exam (EX240) tests your ability to create and maintain enterprise APIs using Red Hat® 3scale API Management.

By passing this exam, you become a Red Hat Certified Specialist in API Management, which also counts toward becoming a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA).

This exam is based on Red Hat 3scale API Management 2.4.

Audience

  • Application developers in a DevOps role who are responsible for managing enterprise APIs using 3scale by Red Hat
  • Administrators or architects in a DevOps role who are responsible for managing enterprise APIs using 3scale by Red Hat

Skills Gained

To help you prepare, the exam objectives highlight the task areas you can expect to see covered in the exam.

Red Hat reserves the right to add, modify, and remove exam objectives. Such changes will be made public in advance.

You should be able to accomplish these tasks without assistance:

- Access control

  • Create and maintain application plans
  • Configure limits and pricing rules

- Accounts

  • Create and update user accounts
  • Configure user credentials
  • Send user invitations
  • Maintain group memberships
  • Configure usage rules and information gathered from users
  • Maintain application states and plans

- Analytics

  • Monitor usage, averages, and top applications
  • Analyze alerts, traffic, and integration errors

- API authentication

  • Maintain API credentials
  • Configure access tokens
  • Provide access control using OpenID Connect, API key, and/or App_ID, App_Key Pair
  • Configure SSO integration

- API documentation

  • Configure ActiveDocs using OpenAPI standards

- Billing

  • Configure payment gateway
  • Configure credit card policies
  • Configure billing periods
  • Update users billing state
  • Configure billing details and invoice items
  • Issue, charge, and cancel invoices

- Developer portal

  • Customize developer portal
  • Configure legal terms
  • Configure portal settings

- Service discovery

  • Add services from an underlying OpenShift cluster

- Service definition

  • Configure methods and metrics

- Service integration

  • Configure API gateway to point to private API
  • Promote API gateway to staging and production
  • Customize service authentication settings and service response
  • Create and maintain custom service policies

As with all Red Hat performance-based exams, configurations must persist after reboot without intervention.

Prerequisites

Possess hands-on experience with the Red Hat 3scale API Management platform

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