Confluent Exam CCDAK Topic 4 Question 74 Discussion

Actual exam question for Confluent's CCDAK exam

Question #: 74
Topic #: 4

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Compaction is enabled for a topic in Kafka by setting log.cleanup.policy=compact. What is true about log compaction?

AAfter cleanup, only one message per key is retained with the first value

BEach message stored in the topic is compressed

CKafka automatically de-duplicates incoming messages based on key hashes

DAfter cleanup, only one message per key is retained with the latest value
Compaction changes the offset of messages

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Suggested Answer: C

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by Helaine at Feb 08, 2025, 07:36 PM

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Cristina

4 days ago

Haha, I bet the exam writers are trying to trick us with these options. Kafka is all about distributed logging, so 'compaction' must be some sort of magic that makes it all work, right?

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Jeannetta

7 days ago

This is a tricky one. I know compaction changes the offsets, so I'm not sure if option A or D is the right choice. I'll have to think about this one more.

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Carmelina

8 days ago

I'm a bit confused. Isn't log compaction supposed to compress the messages as well? Option B seems like it could be the answer.

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Lorrie

9 days ago

Hmm, I was thinking option C was the right answer. Doesn't Kafka de-duplicate messages based on the key hash during log compaction?

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Xochitl

16 days ago

I'm not sure about this. I think the answer might be A) After cleanup, only one message per key is retained with the first value. It could be more efficient to keep the initial value for each key.

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Torie

18 days ago

I think option D is the correct answer. Log compaction retains only the latest value for each unique key.

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Virgie

3 days ago

A) After cleanup, only one message per key is retained with the first value

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Mireya

18 days ago

I agree with Lewis. It's important to retain the latest value for each key after compaction to ensure the most up-to-date information is available in the topic.

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Lewis

21 days ago

I think the answer is D) After cleanup, only one message per key is retained with the latest value. It makes sense to keep the most recent value for each key.

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