A robust API Management solution is at the forefront of the enterprise digital transformation along with cloud-native microservice architectures, and agile development practices. Red Hat 3scale API Management allows organizations to easily increase customer value by securely exposing your APIs for consumption with fine-grained control and monetization options, and simplifies the ability to manage the services provided by your APIs.

This course develops the skills needed to produce secure, scalable, and reliable APIs that are managed by Red Hat 3scale API Management.

As a result of attending this course, you will be able to accelerate the adoption of your APIs for consumption by your customers, partners, and internal users by using 3scale API Management. You will be able to achieve this through learning and demonstrating the following skills:

• Install and configure 3scale API Management.
• Create, manage, monitor and monetize APIs.
• Establish and configure API subscription plans and configure rate limits.
• Create developer portals for documenting your APIs and onboarding developers and partners.
• Secure access to your APIs using API keys, key-pairs and OAuth/OIDC using Red Hat Single Sign-on (SSO).

• DO328: Building Resilient Microservices with Istio and Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
• DO380: Red Hat OpenShift Administration III: Scaling Kubernetes Deployments in the Enterprise

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.

• 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

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

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

Red Hat encourages you to consider taking Build and Administer APIs with Red Hat 3scale API Management (DO240) to help prepare. Attendance in these classes is not required; students can choose to take just the exam.

While attending Red Hat classes can be an important part of one’s preparation to take this exam, attending class does not guarantee success on the exam. Previous experience, practice, and native aptitude are also important determinants of success.

Many books and other resources on system administration for Red Hat’s products are available. Red Hat does not officially endorse any as preparation guides for its exam. Nevertheless, you may find additional reading deepens understanding and can prove helpful.