Certified Cloud Security Professional – CCSP – Question239 - Certified Cloud Security Professional

With an API, various features and optimizations are highly desirable to scalability, reliability, and security.
What does the REST API support that the SOAP API does NOT support?

A. Acceleration
B. Caching
C. Redundancy
D. Encryption

Correct Answer: B

Explanation:

Explanation: The Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) does not support caching, whereas the Representational State Transfer (REST) API does. The other options are all capabilities that are either not supported by SOAP or not supported by any API and must be provided by external features.