API Certification Flashcards

to understand how data is Certified (5 cards)

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What is a API?

A

A interface between 2 programmes.
This allows a programmer to create a programme that can exchange data between 2 programmes.
These APIs have different certifications required to access them.

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What is Composite certifications used for?

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Multiple APIs assigned to similar tasks are grouped together to improve performance as oppose to using a single API.

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What is Internal/Private certification used for?

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Used to restrict access to the people inside the company who produced the API and the company they interface with.
They are unavailable to anyone outside of the development company.

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What is Partner certification used for?

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The API is only made available to those who are in the company who develop the application and other companies who have a business partnership with them.

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What is Public certification used for?

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To provide open access to the API with no restrictions to its use.
Examples include; Google Maps allows other websites to use it in their content.

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