Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) — Question 328

Most APIs will support a variety of different data formats or structures.
However, the SOAP API will only support which one of the following data formats?

Answer options

• A. XML
• B. XSLT
• C. JSON
• D. SAML

Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct answer is A, XML, as SOAP APIs are designed specifically to work with XML data format for message exchange. Options B (XSLT), C (JSON), and D (SAML) do not represent the format used by SOAP, thus making them incorrect choices.