SDSI Application Security Design Practice Question
An organization is deploying APIs on AWS and using Cisco API Security to protect them. The security team needs to detect 'Shadow APIs' that are being called but are not registered in the API documentation. How should the solution be configured?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Integrate API Security with the cloud traffic logs to perform behavior analysis and discovery
Cisco API Security performs discovery by analyzing traffic logs and API calls to identify endpoints that are active but missing from the defined schema.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Integrate API Security with the cloud traffic logs to perform behavior analysis and discovery
Why this is correct
By ingesting cloud traffic logs, Cisco API Security identifies active endpoints and highlights them as shadow APIs.
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Manually add every route to the Swagger documentation file
Why it's wrong here
This is a manual process and does not leverage the automated discovery features of Cisco API Security.
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Configure OAuth scopes to restrict access to the API Gateway
Why it's wrong here
OAuth restricts access, it does not perform discovery of undocumented API endpoints.
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Enable WAF block mode for all undefined routes
Why it's wrong here
Blocking undefined routes would cause legitimate traffic to fail without proper discovery first.
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Last reviewed August 2026 · checked against the official Cisco exam blueprint
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