Your company offers public APIs with two tiers: Starter (1,000 calls/day per client) and Enterprise (10,000 calls/day per client). Developers must self-serve sign-up to obtain keys, pending approval. Each request should automatically receive a correlation ID header. What Azure API Management configuration meets these requirements with minimal overhead?
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Correct answer: Define two products (Starter, Enterprise) that require subscriptions; attach a rate-limit-by-key policy at the product scope with the appropriate quotas; enable the developer portal with self-service sign-up requiring approval; add a set-header policy at the API scope to inject a correlation ID..
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The correct option leverages Azure API Management's core features to meet all requirements efficiently. Defining two products (Starter, Enterprise) with subscription requirements directly supports the tiered access model. The rate-limit-by-key policy at the product scope enforces the daily call quotas per client. Enabling the developer portal with self-service sign-up and approval streamlines key distribution. A set-header policy at the API scope automatically injects the correlation ID. Incorrect options: Azure Front Door is a WAF and CDN, not designed for API key management or product-based rate limiting. Manual key distribution is not self-serve. Deploying two separate APIM instances is high overhead and unnecessary. Azure Functions Proxies are for simple routing, not a full API management solution with product tiers and developer portals. Implementing throttling in code increases development and maintenance effort. A JWT-validate policy is for token validation, not rate limiting. Reading counters from Redis introduces external dependencies and complexity for a feature natively available in APIM.
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