Google Cloud Apigee Certified API Engineer

Overview:

Introduction:

This program is designed to prepare participants for the certification exam only.

Apigee is Google Cloud’s full lifecycle API management platform that enables organizations to design, secure, deploy, and scale APIs efficiently across hybrid and cloud environments. The Apigee Certification validates knowledge in managing APIs using Apigee Edge or Apigee X, covering areas such as API proxies, security policies, traffic management, and analytics. This training program provides participants with the structured knowledge necessary to navigate the Apigee environment.

Program Objectives:

By the end of this program, participants will be able to:

• Identify the Apigee’s architecture and its relevance in enterprise API ecosystems.

• Organize API management functions across development, security, and traffic control layers.

• Classify the tools and components used in Apigee for proxy design and deployment.

• Evaluate policy structures and performance monitoring features in Apigee.

• Prepare for the Apigee certification exam.

Targeted Audience:

• API developers and architects.

• Cloud engineers and platform administrators.

• Integration and solution architects.

• IT professionals pursuing Apigee certification.

• Technical leads working on API lifecycle management.

Program Outline:

Unit 1:

Apigee Platform Architecture and Components:

• Overview of Apigee Edge and Apigee X environments.

• Architecture layers, including API proxies, runtime, and analytics.

• Overssight on the elements, including developer portal, management interface, and gateways.

• Key platform services and deployment models.

• Role of Apigee in enterprise API strategies.

Unit 2:

API Proxy Design and Implementation:

• API proxy models and configuration flow.

• Request and response transformation logic.

• How to work with target endpoints and backend services.

• Proxy chaining and versioning strategies.

• Frameworks for using environment variables and shared flows.

Unit 3:

Policy Management and API Security:

• Types of policies, including mediation, traffic, and security.

• OAuth, API key validation, and access control policies.

• Threat protection techniques, including spike arrest, quota, and rate limiting.

• Key activities for Eenforcing CORS and resource visibility.

• Policy attachment and flow execution models.

Unit 4:

Monitoring, Traffic Control, and Analytics:

• Oversight on the monitoring tools and dashboards within Apigee.

• Traffic management configurations and caching methodologies.

• The integration process with logging and external monitoring platforms.

• Role of analytics in API usage tracking and optimization.

• Performance indicators and SLA insights.

Unit 5:

Apigee Certification Preparation:

• Review of certification domains and objectives.

• Reviewing key topics and areas of emphasis in the exam syllabus.

• Sample exam topics and question patterns.

• Resources and study materials for exam preparation.

Note: This program is designed to prepare participants for the certification exam only.