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The Security for Microservices & SOA course provides in-depth coverage of industry technologies, practices and controls used to secure microservices and other types of services. It addresses essential security concepts and techniques for establishing security measures and architectures, and further covers technical and complex security topics related to contemporary microservice deployments, service-oriented solution design, infrastructure, API gateways and modern service technologies.

Complete the Security for Microservices & SOA course and, optionally, get accredited as a Certified Service Security Specialist by passing the certification exam. You can purchase the course now and get the exam later, or you can get them together at a discount as part of the Certification Bundle.

Upon completing the course you will receive a digital certificate of completion, as well as a digital training badge from Acclaim/Credly. Because this course encompasses both the Microservice Professional and Service Security Specialist certifications, upon passing the exam you will also receive official Microservice Professional and Service Security Specialist digital accreditation certificates and certification badges from Acclaim/Credly, along with an account that can be used to verify your certification status.

If you already completed the Microservice Professional course modules, you can purchase a partial course (or a partial bundle) with only the modules specific to the Service Security Specialist track here.

The Security for Microservices & SOA course is comprised of the following 5 course modules, each of which has an estimated completion time of 10 hours:

  • Module 1: Fundamental SOA, Services & Microservices
  • Module 2: Microservice Technology Concepts
  • Module 18: Fundamental Security for Services, Microservices & SOA
  • Module 19: Advanced Security for Services, Microservices & SOA
  • Module 20: Security Lab for Services, Microservices & SOA

Choose the Certification Bundle to receive the entire course together with the online-proctored certification exam and a set of practice exam questions, all at a bundle discount.

Exam Details

Upon purchasing this course, you will automatically receive access via the Online Interactive eLearning platform. To provide you with the greatest flexibility, you will also have the option to access the course materials via two additional eLearning formats, at no extra cost. All three eLearning formats are briefly described below. A more detailed comparison can be found here.
  1. For everyday learning: An online interactive eLearning platform with individual lessons, as well as interactive and automatically graded exercises and practice questions.
  2. For learning on-the-go: A study kit platform with access to full course documents that support online/offline synching, annotations, comments, custom bookmarks and cross-document searches.
  3. For your reference: A set of printable PDF documents that you can keep (for all course workbooks and posters).
All three forms of access are subject to Arcitura’s *. Upon purchase, access to the online interactive eLearning platform (1) is provided within one business day. Access to the study kits (2) and the PDF documents (3) is provided upon request.

The course is comprised of a set of modules. Each module has a set of lessons and is further supplemented with exercises to help reinforce your understanding of key topics. Shown below are the digital contents and the topic outline for each course module:


Module 1: Fundamental SOA, Services & Microservices

This course module provides an easy to understand, end-to-end overview of contemporary service-oriented computing, including concepts and technologies pertaining to modern-day services and microservices, as well as business and technology-related topics pertaining to service-oriented architecture (SOA).


Course Module Contents


  • Workbook Lessons (100+ pages)
  • Video Lessons (for all topics)
  • Interactive Exercises

  • Mind Map Poster
  • Symbol Legend Poster
  • Practice Exam Questions
  • PDFs of Workbook and Posters (printable)

Topics Covered

  • Business and Technology Drivers for SOA, Services and Microservices
  • Strategic Goals and Benefits of Service-Oriented Computing
  • Plain English Introduction to Services and Microservices
  • Fundamental Characteristics of a Service-Oriented Architecture
  • Understanding Service-Orientation as a Design Paradigm, including coverage of the Four Pillars of Service-Orientation
  • Introduction to Service Layers, Service Models and Service Compositions

  • Service Inventories, Service Layers and Service API Governance and Management
  • Introduction to Common Service Technologies, including API Gateways, Virtualization, Containerization
  • Introduction to Cloud Computing and Cloud Services
  • Adoption Impacts and Requirements, including considerations for Governance, Infrastructure, Performance and Standardization

Module 2: Microservice Technology Concepts

This course module focuses on modern service technologies, models and concepts that have established de facto implementation mediums for building contemporary services-based solutions. Also covered are fundamental terms, concepts and models pertaining to cloud computing and cloud-based services.


Course Module Contents


  • Workbook Lessons (100+ pages)
  • Video Lessons (for all topics)
  • Interactive Exercises

  • Mind Map Poster
  • Practice Exam Questions
  • PDFs of Workbook and Poster (printable)

Topics Covered

  • Comparing Service Implementation Mediums
  • Service Roles and Service Agents
  • Message Exchange Patterns and Service Activities
  • Basic XML, XML Schema, JSON and JSON Schema Concepts
  • HTTP Methods, Response Codes and Headers
  • Basic REST Service Concepts, including Properties and Constraints
  • REST Services, Contracts, Resources and Messaging

  • Hypermedia and Late Binding
  • Basic WSDL and SOAP Concepts
  • WS-* Technologies
  • Web Service Contracts, Messaging and Registries
  • Cloud Computing Concepts
  • Vertical and Horizontal Scaling
  • Multitenancy, Elasticity and Resiliency
  • On-Demand Usage, Ubiquitous Access and Measured Usage
  • Public, Private and Hybrid Clouds
  • IaaS, PaaS and SaaS

Module 18: Fundamental Security for Services, Microservices & SOA

This course module provides essential techniques, patterns and industry technologies that pertain to establishing security controls and security architectures for services, microservices and service-oriented solutions.


Course Module Contents


  • Workbook Lessons (100+ pages)
  • Interactive Exercises
  • Mind Map Poster

  • Practice Exam Questions
  • PDFs of Workbook and Poster (printable)

Topics Covered

  • Security and the Service-Oriented Architectural Model
  • SOA Security Considerations for Service and Composition Architectures
  • Security Implications of Service-Orientation Principles
  • Trust, Claims, Tokens, Identity, Authentication, Authorization, Transport and Message Layer Security
  • Encryption, Hashing, Digital Signatures, Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Digital Certificates, Certificate Authorities, Single Sign-On (SSO)
  • REST Services and JSON Industry Standards

  • JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE) Framework, OAuth2
  • HTTP Basic and Digest Authentication, API Key, JWT with X.509 certificates
  • Service Interaction Security Patterns (Data Confidentiality, Data Origin Authentication, Direct Authentication, Brokered Authentication)
  • Web Services and XML Industry Standards
  • XML Encryption, XML Signature, WS-Security, Token Profiles, SAML
  • Microservice Security Considerations
  • Implementing SOA Security and Service-Orientation Security

Module 19: Advanced Security for Services, Microservices & SOA

This course module covers a series of technical and complex security topics pertaining to contemporary service-oriented solution design, infrastructure, microservices, API gateways and modern service technologies.


Course Module Contents


  • Workbook Lessons (100+ pages)
  • Interactive Exercises
  • Mind Map Poster

  • Practice Exam Questions
  • PDFs of Workbook and Poster (printable)

Topics Covered

  • Understanding SOA Security Threats
  • STRIDE (Spoofing, Tampering, Repudiation, Information Disclosure, Denial-of-Service, Elevation of Privilege)
  • SOA Security Patterns for Internal Service Architecture (Exception Shielding, Message Screening, Trusted Subsystem, Service Perimeter Guard)
  • Security Token Structures and Issuance (JWT, Username, X.509, SAML)
  • Authentication Sessions and Secure Conversations
  • Federation and Trust Brokering Security
  • Policy Design and Governance

  • REST Security Controls and Designs
  • Open API Specification (OAS v 3.0), Open ID Connect
  • Web service Security Controls and Designs
  • WS-Policy, WS-SecurityPolicy, WS-Trust and WS-Secure Conversation with SAML
  • Microservices and Containerization Security Considerations
  • Security Extensions and Controls for API Gateways and ESBs
  • Security Risks and Considerations for Cloud-based Services and Service Compositions
  • Preparing for Common SOA Security Threats

Module 20: Security Lab for Services, Microservices & SOA

This course module allows attendees to apply the security concepts, techniques, patterns and technologies previously covered in order to complete a set of exercises. Participants are required to analyze case study backgrounds and carry out a series of exercises to solve a number of inter-related problems, with the goal of producing a range of security solutions.


Course Module Contents


  • Lab Exercise Booklet
  • Mind Map Poster

  • Practice Exam Questions
  • PDFs of Exercise Booklet and Poster (printable)

Topics Covered

  • Reading Exercise 20.1: Cutit Saws Mini Case Study Background
  • Lab Exercise 20.2: Ordering Service Security Architecture Redesign
  • Lab Exercise 20.3: Ordering Service Security Architecture Hardening for Threat Protection
  • Lab Exercise 20.4: Aggregate Report Service Security Architecture
  • Lab Exercise 20.5: REST Inventory Service Security Architecture

  • Lab Exercise 20.6: Three-Party Permit Service Security Architecture
  • Lab Exercise 20.7: Auction Solution Security Architecture
  • Reading Exercise 20.8: YouSave Automotive Parts Mini Case Study Background
  • Lab Exercise 20.9: ProcessOrder Service Security Architecture
  • Lab Exercise 20.10: ProcessOrder Service Security Architecture Redesign

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