In API Autodiscovery, what is the practical effect of linking the API ID to its runtime implementation?

• A. It ensures policies are downloaded and enforced on the implementation.
• B. It ensures automatic API scaling at runtime.
• C. It creates a new API in Exchange.
• D. It publishes analytics about API usage.

Answer: (A)

Linking the API ID to its runtime implementation lets the gateway know which API’s policies to apply and where to enforce them. With this linkage, the runtime can fetch the policy definitions stored in the API Manager/Exchange and enforce them on all traffic for that API. This enables automatic security checks, rate limiting, and other policy actions to run at runtime, and makes policy updates propagate to the live API without manual reconfiguration. It isn’t about creating the API in Exchange, changing how the API scales, or generating analytics—the practical effect is policy download and enforcement on the implementation.