EX240 - Red Hat Certified Specialist in API Management exam

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

Study points for 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

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

Recommended next exam or course:

DO240 - Cloud-Native API Administration with Red Hat 3scale API Management