Why does Kafka use ZooKeeper? (Choose two.)

The correct answer is A. To access information about the leaders and partitions D. For controller election. ZooKeeper stores metadata such as partition leadership and ISR (in-sync replicas), which brokers use to coordinate. Kafka uses ZooKeeper to perform leader election for the Controller broker, which manages cluster metadata and leadership changes.

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ATo access information about the leaders and partitions
BTo scale the number of brokers in the cluster
CTo prevent replication between clusters
DFor controller election

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A
75% (18)
B
17% (4)
C
8% (2)

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ZooKeeper stores metadata such as partition leadership and ISR (in-sync replicas), which brokers use to coordinate. Kafka uses ZooKeeper to perform leader election for the Controller broker, which manages cluster metadata and leadership changes.

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