Kafka installation and setup - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the command to download Kafka using wget.

Kafka

wget [1]

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Ahttps://example.com/kafka.zip

Bhttps://kafka.apache.org/downloads

Chttps://downloads.apache.org/kafka/3.5.1/kafka_2.13-3.5.1.tgz

Dhttps://apache.org/kafka/latest

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Common Mistakes

Using the website homepage URL instead of the direct download link.

Downloading a wrong file format like .zip instead of .tgz.

The correct URL points directly to the Kafka 3.5.1 tarball for Scala 2.13.

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medium

Complete the command to extract the Kafka archive.

Kafka

tar [1] kafka_2.13-3.5.1.tgz

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A-cvf

B-xzvf

C-xvzf

D-xzf

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Common Mistakes

Using 'c' which is for creating archives instead of extracting.

Omitting the 'z' option for gzip compressed files.

The option -xzvf extracts a gzip compressed tarball verbosely.

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hard

Fix the error in the command to start the Kafka server.

Kafka

bin/kafka-server-start.sh [1]/config/server.properties

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Akafka_2.13-3.5.1

Bkafka_2.13-3.5.1/config

Ckafka/config

Dconfig

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Common Mistakes

Using just 'config' without the Kafka folder prefix.

Using an incorrect folder path.

The correct path includes the extracted Kafka folder and the config directory.

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hard

Fill both blanks to create a topic named 'test' with 1 partition and replication factor 1.

Kafka

bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --topic [1] --partitions [2] --replication-factor 1 --bootstrap-server localhost:9092

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Atest

B1

C3

Dmytopic

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Common Mistakes

Using a different topic name.

Setting partitions to a number other than 1.

The topic name is 'test' and it has 1 partition.

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hard

Fill both blanks to list all topics using the correct bootstrap server and command.

Kafka

bin/kafka-topics.sh --list --bootstrap-server [1]:[2]

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Alocalhost

B9092

C127.0.0.1

D2181

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Common Mistakes

Using Zookeeper port 2181 instead of Kafka port 9092.

Using IP address instead of localhost.

The bootstrap server is localhost on port 9092 for Kafka.