Does the API module have an exam?

The Albion API course has no exam and earns CPSA-A credit points. Certification involves an assignment and an oral exam assessed by experts appointed by the iSAQB, after all admission requirements have been met.

How many credit points does API give?

The Albion API course carries 20 credit points under the iSAQB API curriculum 2025.1: ten for technical competence, ten for methodical competence and none for communicative competence.

What do I get for attending?

For the Albion API course you receive the Albion certificate of participation from 80% attendance, with a public verification page. It does not depend on any exam.

Do I need CPSA-F to attend?

You do not need CPSA-F for the Albion API course: the iSAQB API curriculum states that the module can be attended independently of a CPSA-F certification. A passed Foundation exam is required for CPSA-A admission.

Is the API module only about REST?

The Albion API course is not only about REST. The curriculum sets RPC, resource, hypermedia, query and event styles side by side and assigns gRPC, HTTP APIs, REST and GraphQL to them as technologies.

Is the module purely technical?

The Albion API course is not purely technical. The curriculum gives its own chapters to the API economy, business models, API guidelines and APIs as the interfaces between teams.

Online or on site: the same course?

The Albion API course follows the same programme online and on site.

Is there a discount for a team?

A group discount applies to several seats booked together for the Albion API course. The date row and checkout show whether it applies and the minimum number of seats.

iSAQB API Application Programming Interfaces Training

About the course

What this course is.

You design an API around its consumers and keep it compatible as it changes.

Current curriculum: 2025.1; iSAQB · Advanced Level · API

Read the curriculum

After the course you can:

Choose between REST, gRPC and GraphQL
Design an API outside in
Manage an API as a product
Establish API guidelines for teams

Credit point and certificate details

Dates

Dates for this course.

No public API dates are scheduled right now.

The next public date has not been announced. Join the waitlist to hear when it is set. For a team of four or more, we can run the course inhouse on your date.

Request inhouse training

Before you book

Is this the right course for you?

Who it's for

If one of these four describes your work, you are in the right room.

You design the interfaces other teams build against.
You decide whether an API is REST, GraphQL, gRPC or event-driven.
You keep an API compatible while it keeps changing.
You set API guidelines for more than one team.

Prerequisites

Recommended

Role:
Work as an architect or developer, or in a comparable conceptual, management or technical role
Prior knowledge:
Basic IT and software architecture knowledge is enough for a broad overview of APIs
Certification:
The module can be attended independently of a CPSA-F certification

Curriculum, 8 topics

What the course covers.

The topics follow the iSAQB API curriculum 2025.1. Your trainer works through them live with the group.

Why APIs are Important
How APIs are Creating Value
API Styles and Technologies
API Design
Description of APIs
API Lifecycle and API Tooling
API Security
APIs at Scale: Platforms and Governance

After the course you can

Compare integration through a database, files, remote calls and messages
Weigh private, partner and public APIs as ways of creating value
Classify gRPC, HTTP APIs, REST and GraphQL by the API style they follow
Design an API outside in and version it without breaking consumers
Use OpenAPI; match AsyncAPI, gRPC and GraphQL to suitable API styles
Manage an API as a product through its lifecycle
Secure an API with HTTPS, OAuth and OpenID Connect
Establish API guidelines and evolve them with the teams involved

How it works

How the training works.

Before the date
Before the course
Before the Albion API course you get the materials. Joining details or the address follow before the date.
Day 1
Day 2
The course days
The course days follow the same programme online and on site; the times are on the date you booked.
After the course
After the course
From 80 percent attendance you get the Albion certificate of participation; the credit points count toward CPSA-A admission.
Credit points and certificate

After this course

Credit points, and the certificate you take home.

Certificate of participation

Albion

To receive it: At least 80% of the course time attended

Credit points

iSAQB

20 credit points toward CPSA-A

This course has no exam.

Technical: 10 credit points
Methodical: 10 credit points
Communicative: 0 credit points

What you still need for CPSA-A

This course contributes 20 of the 70 credit points required. Your total across modules must include at least 10 points in each area.

You also need the CPSA-F (Foundation) certificate; the official rules cover the remaining eligibility and assessment requirements.

Official CPSA-A requirements

Why Albion

Why book with Albion.

Every promise here is one the Terms can be held to, on every course.

Verified digital certificate
Public verification page
Every certificate Albion issues has a public verification page, and the certificate showroom shows a sample of each one.
See the certificate showroom
Accredited trainers who work as architects
iSAQB accreditation
Your trainers are accredited iSAQB trainers who work as architects, so the exercises come from systems they have built.

Related modules.

Application Programming Interfaces adds 10 technical and 10 methodical points toward CPSA-A. Communicative is still open.

Technical: 10Minimum of 10 met
Methodical: 10Minimum of 10 met
Communicative: 0Open: minimum is 10

This course only. Your previous modules are not included. CPSA-A requires 70 points, at least 10 in each area, plus the Foundation certificate.

Modules that add communicative points

FAQ

Questions before you book.

Credit points and certificate

The Albion API course has no exam and earns CPSA-A credit points. Certification involves an assignment and an oral exam assessed by experts appointed by the iSAQB, after all admission requirements have been met.
The Albion API course carries 20 credit points under the iSAQB API curriculum 2025.1: ten for technical competence, ten for methodical competence and none for communicative competence.
For the Albion API course you receive the Albion certificate of participation from 80% attendance, with a public verification page. It does not depend on any exam.

The course

You do not need CPSA-F for the Albion API course: the iSAQB API curriculum states that the module can be attended independently of a CPSA-F certification. A passed Foundation exam is required for CPSA-A admission.
The Albion API course is not only about REST. The curriculum sets RPC, resource, hypermedia, query and event styles side by side and assigns gRPC, HTTP APIs, REST and GraphQL to them as technologies.
The Albion API course is not purely technical. The curriculum gives its own chapters to the API economy, business models, API guidelines and APIs as the interfaces between teams.
The Albion API course follows the same programme online and on site.

Booking and price

A group discount applies to several seats booked together for the Albion API course. The date row and checkout show whether it applies and the minimum number of seats.

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iSAQB APIApplication Programming Interfaces Training