Apache Kafka Quiz

Apache Kafka Quiz Question and Answers

The __________ allows an application to subscribe to one or more topics and process the stream of records produced to them.

_______ are servers that replicate a partition log regardless of their role as leader or follower?

Kafka stores metadata of basic information about Topics, Brokers and consumer offsets in ________

"isr" is the set of "in-sync" replicas.

Each __________ acts as a leader for some of its partitions and a follower for others so load is well balanced within the cluster.

A _________ subscribes to a topic and consumes published messages by pulling data from the brokers.

_________ keeps track of topics, its partitions and replicas, who is the preferred leader and what configuration overrides are set for each topic.

Kafka Streams has no external dependencies on systems other than Apache Kafka itself.

Point out the wrong statement :

Messages are persisted on disk and replicated within the cluster to prevent data loss.
Kafka is designed to allow a single cluster to serve as the central data backbone for a large organization.
A single Kafka broker can handle hundreds of megabytes of reads and writes per second from thousands of clients.
The Kafka cluster does not retain all published messages.

Banking industry can leverage Kafka Streams for detecting fraudulent transactions.

The _________ allows building and running reusable producers or consumers that connect Kafka topics to existing applications or data systems.

Sink processor does not have any upstream processors.

A consumer cannot reset to an older offset to reprocess data from the past or skip ahead to the most recent record and start consuming from now.

In a cluster Kafka can work without Zookeeper?

Kafka only provides a total order over records within a partition, not between different partitions in a topic.

What is the default retention period for a Kafka topic ?

Which API supports managing and inspecting topics, brokers and other kafka objects?

A _____ is the primary abstraction in Kafka Streams, and represents an unbounded and continuously updating data set.

Each record consists of a key, a value, and a ________.

Which messaging semantics do Kafka use to handle failure to any broker in cluster?