Service-API-Specialist Exam Information and Outline
Service API Specialist
Syllabus Update Checked on: November 5, 2026
Service-API-Specialist Exam Syllabus & Study Guide
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- Exam Format
- Online-proctored multiple-choice certification exam (Pearson VUE) covering the modules below
- Practice exam questions provided with the certification bundle
- Module 1: Fundamental SOA, Services & Microservices
- Business and technology drivers for SOA
- Service-orientation principles and the four pillars
- Service layers, models, compositions and inventories
- API governance; API gateways, virtualization and containerization
- Cloud computing basics and adoption requirements
- Module 2: Microservice Technology Concepts
- Service implementation mediums, roles and message exchange patterns
- XML, XML Schema, JSON and JSON Schema
- HTTP methods, status codes and headers; REST constraints and hypermedia
- WSDL, SOAP and WS-* technologies
- Cloud concepts: scaling, multitenancy, IaaS/PaaS/SaaS
- Module 3: Fundamental Service API Design & Management
- API roles; public, private and partner APIs
- Service API lifecycle and decoupled contracts
- Serialization: XML, JSON, Avro, Thrift, Protocol Buffers
- REST APIs, idempotency, API gateways and protocol bridging
- Module 4: Advanced Service API Design & Management
- gRPC, GraphQL, Falcor and Thrift
- Contract, schema and policy centralization
- Service mesh vs. API gateway; API management patterns
- Module 5: Service API Design & Management Lab
- Case-study exercises on coupling, API views and performance optimization