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Clients that connect to a Kafka cluster are required to specify one or more brokers in the 'bootstrap.servers' parameter. What is the primary advantage of specifying more than one broker?

The correct answer is A. It provides redundancy in making the initial connection to the Kafka cluster.. Specifying more than one broker in the bootstrap.servers parameter provides redundancy, ensuring that if one broker is unavailable, the client can still connect to the cluster through

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Question

Clients that connect to a Kafka cluster are required to specify one or more brokers in the 'bootstrap.servers' parameter. What is the primary advantage of specifying more than one broker?

Options

  • AIt provides redundancy in making the initial connection to the Kafka cluster.
  • BIt forces clients to enumerate every single broker in the cluster.
  • CIt is the mechanism to distribute a topic's partitions across multiple brokers.
  • DIt provides the ability to wake up dormant brokers.

How the community answered

(52 responses)
  • A
    92% (48)
  • B
    2% (1)
  • C
    4% (2)
  • D
    2% (1)

Explanation

Specifying more than one broker in the bootstrap.servers parameter provides redundancy, ensuring that if one broker is unavailable, the client can still connect to the cluster through

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#bootstrap.servers#redundancy#cluster connection

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