Practice Kafka Interview Multiple Choice Questions with Answers Quiz-1

Q.1.

__________ provides the functionality of a messaging system.

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Q.2.

Point out the correct statement.

a) With Kafka, more users, whether using SQL queries or BI applications, can interact with more data
b) A topic is a category or feed name to which messages are published
c) For each topic, the Kafka cluster maintains a partitioned log
d) None of the mentioned

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Q.3.

Kafka maintains feeds of messages in categories called __________

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Q.4.

Kafka is run as a cluster comprised of one or more servers each of which is called __________

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Q.5.

Point out the wrong statement.

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

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Q.6.

Communication between the clients and the servers is done with a simple, high-performance, language-agnostic _________ protocol.

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Q.7.

The only metadata retained on a per-consumer basis is the position of the consumer in the log, called __________

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Q.8.

Each kafka partition has one server which acts as the _________

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Q.9.

_________ has stronger ordering guarantees than a traditional messaging system.

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Q.10.

Kafka only provides a _________ order over messages within a partition.

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