Overview Flashcards

Attain a better understanding of API Designers Key Concepts

1
Q

What is API Designer the product name for?

A

The second generation of the Temenos Interaction Framework.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

What does API Designer provide to the user?

A

A set of tools to allow the Bank to create and maintain ReSTful APIs.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

What is the design time suite called?

A

Design Studio.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

What is the run time engine called?

A

HyperMediaServer.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

What does ReST stand for?

A

Representational State Transfer.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

What is ReST?

A

The architectural style behind how the web works.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

What does ReST consist of?

A

A set of architectural constraints applied to a hypermedia system.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

How does a hypermedia system provide navigational information to the system’s ReST interfaces dynamically?

A

By including hypertext links with its responses to messages.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

What does the Interaction Framework simplify?

A

The process of bringing users and resources together.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

What are two benefits of putting an interaction layer between the user agents and the resources?

A

It removes the need for tight coupling and allows both to specialize in what they do best.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

True or False: “The framework can only allow a singular user agent to be able to access resources.”

A

False, the framework can allow multiple user agents to have access to resources.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

True or False: “The framework is able to handle multiple resource providers.”

A

True, the framework can handle additional resources in addition to the primary Temenos resource T24.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

How does the interaction framework help developers?

A

It makes creating and using web services as easy as possible.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

What is the interaction framework built according to?

A

ReSTful constraints.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

What is used to allow user agents to talk to the framework?

A

OData2.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

What is OData?

A

It is an OASIS open data protocol that allows for the exchange of data between user agents and Resource Providers

17
Q

What methods does OData support?

A

GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE.

18
Q

What does HATEAOS stand for?

A

Hypertext As The Engine Of Application State.

19
Q

What does using HATEOAS mean for the framework?

A

It means that the user agent finds their way through the framework API using hypertext links.

20
Q

What is the “Distribution Mode” HyperMediaServer?

A

It is an instance of a complied “.war” file that has been deployed on an industry standard JEE Application Server.

21
Q

What is the Consumer Portal?

A

It is a tool for viewing documentation and the inventory of deployed APIs.