Practice Consumers and Consumer Groups - 3.6 | Week 8: Cloud Applications: MapReduce, Spark, and Apache Kafka | Distributed and Cloud Systems Micro Specialization
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3.6 - Consumers and Consumer Groups

Learning

Practice Questions

Test your understanding with targeted questions related to the topic.

Question 1

Easy

What is the primary function of a consumer in Kafka?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about what a consumer does in terms of data flow.

Question 2

Easy

What is an offset in Kafka?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider how you would keep track of your progress in a task.

Practice 4 more questions and get performance evaluation

Interactive Quizzes

Engage in quick quizzes to reinforce what you've learned and check your comprehension.

Question 1

What is the main function of a consumer in Kafka?

  • Process data
  • Store data
  • Read messages

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about the role of consumers in data streaming.

Question 2

True or False: Offsets in Kafka are only for tracking processed messages.

  • True
  • False

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider how consumption needs to be managed.

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Challenge Problems

Push your limits with challenges.

Question 1

Design a Kafka consumer group to process event data from a live sports event application. Describe how you would allocate partitions and manage failures.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider how real-time events might be structured in terms of topics.

Question 2

Explain how Kafka's approach to offset management improves fault tolerance compared to a traditional queue system.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about the reliability of message consumption.

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