Apigee Overview

• Understand the placement and role of API management in modern application development.
• Define logical components and organizational structure of Apigee API platform.
• Differentiate between Apigee flexible deployment models.
• Explain the API lifecycle.

API-First and OpenAPI Specifications

• Describe the fundamentals of REST API design.
• Understand the value of API-first development and how to apply it.
• Discuss OpenAPI specifications and their use in the context of API-first development.

API Proxies

• Define the building blocks of APIs and API proxies.
• Describe how APIs proxies work and how capabilities such as flows, policies, route rules, environment groups, and target servers play a role.
• Describe how APIs are exposed.
• Describe how API proxies connect to backend systems.

API Products

• Define API products and API product strategies.
• Understand the role of developers, applications, and API keys in API management.
• Describe the API publication process.
• Understand API responses and status codes for REST APIs.

Authentication, Authorization, and OAuth

• Discuss the importance of API security.
• Understand the value of application identity.
• Understand the role of user authentication and authorization.
• Gain deep understanding of OAuth (access tokens, refresh tokens, common patterns for all grant types) and its application in the context of API design and management.
• Discuss federated identity and the use of JSON Web Tokens in API proxies.

Content, Transport, and Internal Security

• Explore platform capabilities for protecting against content-based attacks.
• Discuss transport security and how to protect the connection between Apigee and backend services.
• Understand how to protect sensitive data using KVMs, data masking, and private variables.

Mediation

• Understand the out-of-the-box platform capabilities for implementing mediation and fault handling.
• Describe implementation patterns and policies for JSON, XML, and SOAP.
• Understand extensibility options using Service Callouts, JavaScript, and Java.
• Explore development practices and capabilities used to reuse, share, and enforce execution of flows and policies.

Traffic Management

• Describe when and how to use traffic management.
• Evaluate options and applicable use cases for rate limiting with spike arrests and quotas.
• Understand caching strategy and how to apply it.

API Publishing

• Describe API publishing strategy and process.
• Expand understanding of REST API design by discussing API versioning.
• Describe the role of developer portals in the API lifecycle and as a critical part of API strategy

Logging and Analytics

• Discuss available options for message logging.
• Understand the value and use of API analytics.
• Understand the extensibility options available for API analytics using custom metrics and dimensions.

Advanced Topics

• Discuss recommended practices and tooling for Apigee offline development.
• Describe the capabilities offered by the Apigee API.
• Evaluate options to leverage CI/CD as part of the API lifecycle.
• Explore the Apigee deployment options