Confluent Exam CCAAK Topic 6 Question 6 Discussion

Actual exam question for Confluent's CCAAK exam

Question #: 6
Topic #: 6

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Why does Kafka use ZooKeeper? (Choose two.)

ATo access information about the leaders and partitions

BTo scale the number of brokers in the cluster

CTo prevent replication between clusters

DFor controller election

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Suggested Answer: A, D

ZooKeeper stores metadata such as partition leadership and ISR (in-sync replicas), which brokers use to coordinate.

Kafka uses ZooKeeper to perform leader election for the Controller broker, which manages cluster metadata and leadership changes.

by Janessa at Jun 16, 2025, 03:02 AM

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5 days ago

I think Kafka uses ZooKeeper to access information about the leaders and partitions.

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