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Confluent CCAAK Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Objectives |
|---|---|
| Security and Access Control | - Encryption in transit and at rest - Authentication (SASL, SSL) - Authorization (ACLs) |
| Kafka Cluster Architecture | - Replication and fault tolerance concepts - Kafka brokers and cluster design - ZooKeeper vs KRaft architecture |
| Topic and Partition Management | - Retention and cleanup policies - Topic creation and configuration - Partitioning strategy and rebalancing |
| Monitoring and Troubleshooting | - Log analysis and debugging - Kafka metrics and monitoring tools - Performance bottlenecks and resolution |
| Kafka Operations and Administration | - Broker configuration and tuning - Cluster scaling and maintenance - Upgrades and rolling restarts |
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The Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka exam spans 5 domains, and they are not weighted equally. The top areas are Kafka Cluster Architecture, Monitoring and Troubleshooting, Security and Access Control. Budget your study hours to match those weights; the full domain list is in the outline section further up this page.
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Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka Sample Questions:
How can authentication for both internal component traffic and external client traffic be accomplished?
- A. Configure LoadBalancer.
- B. Configure multiple brokers.
- C. Configure multiple listeners on the broker.
- D. Configure multiple security protocols on the same listener.
Correct Answer: C 🗳️
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You have a Kafka cluster with topics t1 and t2. In the output below, topic t2 shows Partition 1 with a leader "-1".
What is the most likely reason for this?
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$ kafka-topics --zookeeper localhost:2181 --describe --topic t1
Topic:t1 PartitionCount 1 ReplicationFactor 1 Configs:
Topic: t1 Partition: 0 Leader: 0 Replicas: 0 Isr: 0
$ kafka-topics --zookeeper localhost:2181 --describe --topic t2
Topic:t2 PartitionCount 2 ReplicationFactor 1 Configs:
Topic: t2 Partition: 0 Leader: 0 Replicas: 0 Isr: 0
Topic: t2 Partition: 1 Leader: -1 Replicas: 1 Isr:
- A. Broker 1 failed.
- B. Broker 1 has another partition clashing with the same name.
- C. Leader shows "-1" while the log cleaner thread runs on Broker 1.
- D. Compression has been enabled on Broker 1.
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
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A company is setting up a log ingestion use case where they will consume logs from numerous systems. The company wants to tune Kafka for the utmost throughput.
In this scenario, what acknowledgment setting makes the most sense?
- A. acks=1
- B. acks=all
- C. acks=undefined
- D. acks=0
Correct Answer: D 🗳️
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A company has an existing Kafka cluster running without SSL/TLS enabled. The customer wants to enable SSL on brokers to secure data in transit, but they would like to give applications connecting to this cluster some time to migrate to using SSL connection instead of putting a hard stop.
Which solution will meet the customer's requirements?
- A. Enable SSL on the current listener, and do not implement SSL on application side.
- B. Create a new listener with SSL enabled.
- C. Modify the advertised listeners setting on brokers to use SSL.
- D. Enable SSL on the current Listener, and do not enable mTLS.
Correct Answer: B 🗳️
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In certain scenarios, it is necessary to weigh the trade-off between latency and throughput. One method to increase throughput is to configure batching of messages.
In addition to batch.size, what other producer property can be used to accomplish this?
- A. sendbufferbytes
- B. linger.ms
- C. delivery.timeout.ms
- D. compression
Correct Answer: B 🗳️
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