What are critical areas to focus on when troubleshooting KAFKA integrations with Maximo? (Choose Three)

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• AConsumer group and partition health
• BTopic configuration and access permissions
• CNetwork latency and throughput
• DMessage order and idempotence
• EDisk space allocation for log retention

• A
  71% (20)
• C
  11% (3)
• E
  18% (5)

Explanation

When integrating Kafka with Maximo (IBM's asset management platform), the three most operationally critical areas are consumer group and partition health (A), topic configuration and access permissions (B), and message order and idempotence (D).

Why A, B, D are correct:

• (A) Consumer group/partition health directly determines whether Maximo consumers are actively reading messages - lag, rebalancing, or dead consumers will halt data flow entirely.
• (B) Topic configuration and access permissions control whether Maximo can even connect to the correct topics; misconfigured ACLs or wrong topic names are among the most common integration failures.
• (D) Message order and idempotence matter specifically for Maximo because asset/work order updates must be applied in sequence - duplicate or out-of-order messages can corrupt business data.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• (C) Network latency/throughput is a performance concern, not a first-line integration troubleshooting focus; Kafka tolerates moderate latency and this rarely causes outright failures.
• (E) Disk space for log retention is an infrastructure/ops concern that affects how long messages are stored, but won't typically break an active integration in the short term.

Memory tip: Think "CPO" - Consumer health, Permissions, Order - the three things that can silently break Maximo data integrity without obvious errors at the network layer.

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