Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in API Development with Google Cloud API Platform

Develop APIs with the Apigee API Platform. Learn how to design, build, secure, deploy, and manage API solutions using Apigee, Google Cloud’s API lifecycle management solution.

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Professional Certificate

Intermediate level

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Deep understanding of Apigee, Google Cloud’s API management platform
  • Ability to design, secure, and publish APIs
  • Practical experience working with Qwiklabs laboratories
  • Understanding the full API lifecycle
  • Ability to work with Apigee X organizations
  • Problem-solving skills when working with APIs
  • Knowledge of designing and implementing APIs

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Developers
  • Architects
  • Engineers responsible for solving, designing, implementing, or managing APIs

Internship – 3-course course series

This internship series introduces learners to Apigee, Google Cloud’s full-lifecycle API management platform. Through a combination of presentations, hands-on labs, and resources, you’ll explore the full API lifecycle and learn how to design, secure, and publish APIs using the Apigee platform.

Please note: We strongly recommend taking the courses in the order listed. Later lab activities provide an understanding of the APIs you implemented during the previous labs.

Target audience

  • Developers
  • Architects
  • Engineers responsible for solving, designing, implementing, or managing APIs

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Hands-on Learning Project

This specialization includes hands-on labs using our Qwiklabs platform. The labs are built on top of each other, but each lab contains a solution for the previous lab that can be used if required.

You will use Apigee X organizations that are automatically created for you to build APIs in a series of labs.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

API design and the basics of Google Cloud’s Apigee API platform

Course 1

Duration: 7 hours

Rating: 4.7 (2,358 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • To explore and implement API design, development, and management concepts.
  • Describe the design fundamentals of a REST API.
  • Describe API products, API product strategies, and how to publish APIs in the developer portal.
  • Describe Apigee’s terms and organizational model based on Apigee’s product capabilities.

API security on Google Cloud’s Apigee API platform

Course 2

Duration: 8 hours

Rating: 4.6 (823 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • Discuss the role of user authentication and authorization and the importance of API security.
  • Identify the capabilities available for securing, growing, and managing APIs and API products.
  • To explore and implement API design, development, and management concepts.

API development on Google Cloud’s Apigee API platform

Course 3

Duration: 15 hours

Rating: 4.6 (1,035 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • Discuss the proposed platform capabilities for implementing contention, traffic management, caching, and fault handling.
  • Describe the value and use of API analytics.
  • Describe the installation options for the Apigee platform.
  • To explore and implement API design, development, and management concepts.