What is the role of a Kafka consumer group?
Practice this question from Quiz: Kafka Consumer Design and Reliability, with options and an explanation.
Question
What is the role of a Kafka consumer group?
Option A — Correct answer
To share partitions among consumers for scalable processing
Option B
To duplicate every message to every consumer in the group
Option C
To replace Kafka brokers
Option D
To encrypt offsets
Explanation
A consumer group distributes partitions among group members.