Final Exam: Web Services & Systems Programmer

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

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  compare the advantages and challenges of building versus buying API libraries
  

  demonstrate how to create and use custom errors using Spring
  

  demonstrate how to install and configure Elasticsearch
  

  demonstrate how to install and configure Elasticsearch Beats
  

  demonstrate how to install and configure Kibana
  

  demonstrate how to install and configure Logtash
  

  demonstrate how to use HTTP status codes to build a REST service in Spring
  

  describe API error messages which are returned from API method calls for large corporations
  

  describe API governance, associated best practices, and models that can be used when implementing API governance
  

  describe API implementation and operation
  

  describe API Lifecycle Management best practices, such as monitoring, analytics, security, and versioning techniques
  

  describe API strategy and planning
  

  describe bad coding habits and how to prevent using them
  

  describe best practices for defining API management strategies
  

  describe best practices for defining API monitoring strategies
  

  describe best practices for ensuring API security
  

  describe CI/CD best practices
  

  describe CI/CD principles relating to deploying APIs
  

  describe continuous integration and deployment and how to choose the correct strategy
  

  describe how to handle API error responses and identify the response messages
  

  describe how to perform API analysis using the ELK Stack
  

  describe how to scale the CI/CD pipeline
  

  describe how to write secure code when writing API code
  

  describe REST API security principles and tips to ensure better security
  

  describe SAML and OAuth and how they are used to achieve single sign-on, federation and identity management
  

  describe some of the best practices of API error handling
  

  describe the advantages of creating an API strategy
  

  describe the API monitoring tools and their strengths and weaknesses
  

  describe the API strategy mindset and the importance of crafting this strategy
  

  describe the available REST API response standards and the benefits and weaknesses of each standard
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  describe the benefits of API testing and using SoapUI automation
  

  describe the benefits of the API Lifecycle Management process
  

  describe the benefits of using continuous integration and continuous deployment
  

  describe the benefits of writing clean code
  

  describe the best practices for commenting code
  

  describe the best practices for writing clean code
  

  describe the business cost of writing messy, disorganized code
  

  describe the components on the ELK Stack and how it works together
  

  describe the essentials and best practices of API strategies
  

  describe the features and benefits of API management tools
  

  describe the importance of writing clean code and the challenges of keeping code clean
  

  describe the key characteristics of API management strategies
  

  describe the key characteristics of API monitoring strategies
  

  describe the phases of the API life cycle and how to manage it
  

  describe the phases of the API Lifecycle Management process
  

  describe the Producer and Consumer design pattern
  

  describe the purpose and benefits of Elasticsearch
  

  describe the purpose and benefits of Kibana
  

  describe the purpose of OAuth and how it is used to perform single sign-on (SSO)
  

  describe the qualities of clean code
  

  describe the sub-elements and fault codes which are part of the SOAP fault block
  

  describe the types of HTTP response codes and explain on each code
  

  describe threats and risks that need to be considered when creating an API strategy
  

  describe what Transport Layer Security and its strengths and weaknesses is
  

  describe what WEB API security and how to ensure it is done correctly is
  

  identify continuous integration and deployment and how to choose the correct strategy
  

  identify the phases of the API life cycle and how to manage it
  

  recognize the purpose of OAuth and how it is used to perform single sign-on (SSO)
  

  use Gitlab CI
  

  use the Jenkins CI server