Practice Consumer Group Offsets (in Older Versions) (3.4.2.4) - Cloud Applications: MapReduce, Spark, and Apache Kafka
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Consumer Group Offsets (in older versions)

Practice - Consumer Group Offsets (in older versions)

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What is the primary function of consumer group offsets?

💡 Hint: Think about what happens when consumers read messages.

Question 2 Easy

Which system did older versions of Kafka use to manage offsets?

💡 Hint: Consider what external system was commonly associated with distributed applications.

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Question 1

What do consumer group offsets indicate?

The last processed message
The number of consumers
Message retention time

💡 Hint: Think about why tracking processing positions is critical.

Question 2

True or False: Offsets are stored in the Kafka topic in older versions of Kafka.

True
False

💡 Hint: Consider where older Kafka implementations stored state information.

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Challenge 1 Hard

Discuss the challenges of managing consumer group offsets with ZooKeeper and propose a comprehensive solution that outlines the advantages of your approach.

💡 Hint: Consider the evolution of Kafka and how it addresses earlier limitations.

Challenge 2 Hard

Evaluate what could happen if a consumer fails but doesn't have its offset stored correctly. Discuss potential recovery strategies.

💡 Hint: Think about how redundancy can help in data streaming applications.

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