You create a topic named 'stream-logs'. The topic has: - A replication factor of three - Four partitions - Messages that are plain logs without a key How will messages be distributed across partitions

The correct answer is B. Messages will be distributed round-robin among all the topic partitions.. When messages are produced without a key, the Kafka producer uses a round-robin algorithm to distribute messages evenly across all partitions of the topic.

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Question

You create a topic named 'stream-logs'. The topic has:

A replication factor of three
Four partitions
Messages that are plain logs without a key

How will messages be distributed across partitions?

Options

AThe first message will always be written to partition 0.
BMessages will be distributed round-robin among all the topic partitions.
CAll messages will be written to the same log segment.
DMessages will be distributed among all the topic partitions with strict ordering.

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Explanation

When messages are produced without a key, the Kafka producer uses a round-robin algorithm to distribute messages evenly across all partitions of the topic.

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