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# Access data objects

Advanced Identity Cloud gives you the ability to access various data objects such as:

* Managed objects

* Configuration objects

* Repository objects

You can perform various actions on these objects. Advanced Identity Cloud standardizes the objects through a uniform programming model. A uniform programming model means that all objects are queried and manipulated using the Resource API. The URL or URI that is used to identify the target object for an operation depends on the [object type](appendix-objects.html).

The various subsections explore the following:

* Access data objects using [scripts](data-scripts.html)

* Access data objects using [REST](data-rest.html)

* Access data objects (from one Advanced Identity Cloud tenant/IDM instance to another) via a [remote proxy](data-rest-proxy.html)

* [Query](queries.html) data objects