Modern Data Architectures Quiz 1.3

What is the main purpose of Kafka in a Big Data architecture?

• Data visualization

• Real-time data ingestion

• Batch processing

• Storing structured data

What is the unit of data in Kafka?

• Compressed data

• Unstructured data

• Structured data

• Binary data

What is the purpose of a schema in Kafka?

• To manage consumer groups

• To specify the structure of a message

• To organize data into topics

• To monitor broker failures

What is the function of topics in Kafka?

• Organizing messages

• Storing messages on disk

• Serving messages to consumers

• Balancing messages over partitions

What is the role of producers in Kafka?

• Managing consumer groups

• Publishing messages into Kafka

• Storing messages in Kafka

• Reading messages from Kafka

What is the purpose of consumer groups in Kafka?

• Scaling horizontally to consume topics

• Rebalancing partition reading across the group

• Assigning offsets to messages

• Reading messages in the order they were produced

What is the responsibility of a broker in Kafka?

• Monitoring for broker failures

• Serving messages to consumers upon their requests

• Organizing messages from producers into topics

• Assigning partitions to brokers

What is the function of a Kafka cluster?

• Storing messages on disk

• Handling thousands of partitions per topic

• Connecting consumers and producers to the leader

• Running administrative operations

What is the role of the Cluster Controller in a Kafka cluster?

• Receiving and organizing messages from producers

• Assigning offsets to messages

• Assigning partitions to brokers

• Monitoring for broker failures

What is the main advantage of using Kafka in a modern data architecture?

• All of the above

• Scalability for millions of messages per second

• Data retention for as long as needed

• Real-time data ingestion