The purpose of this exam course is to measure your knowledge and identify where to revisit some Kafka topics in order to make sure whether you are ready for the exam

The exams are covers 3 topics

• Kafka Design - %40

• Development - %30

• Monitoring/Testing - %30

Every exam answer is going to be linked to official Kafka documentation, so you can easily refresh your knowledge.

About Kafka

Kafka is open source, a distributed messaging system that enables the communication of data between different applications. It helps to get rid of highly coupled systems to change and effectively maintain your system. Lots of companies are using Kafka or bringing Kafka as a new feature. Multiple reasons make Kafka a popular framework. These are the main features of the Kafka;

Scalable

Stable

High Performance

Persistence

Replication Factor

Simple

The purpose of this Practise Test is to refresh the main features of Apache Kafka. The main concepts;

Why we need messaging platforms?

Kafka Core Concepts

Kafka architecture

Kafka as a messaging platform

Why Kafka?

What is Kafka topic?

Error handling?

Kafka Broker

Using Kafka Consumer

Using Kafka Producer

Partition and Replica Concept

Kafka Streams

Kafka Connect

Important configurations

Some use-cases

Persistance

Admin client configurations

Basic Kafka Operations

Monitoring and metrics

Zookeeper

Security