CCDAK Exam Dumps : Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka Certification Examination

The default maximum message size that a Kafka broker accepts is1MB (1,048,576 bytes), controlled by the config propertymessage.max.bytes.

FromKafka Broker Configuration Docs:

“The default maximum message size is 1MB. To accept larger messages, configure message.max.bytes and the producer’s max.request.size.”

Producers also have a matching limit via max.request.size, and consumers via fetch.message.max.bytes.

SMTs (Single Message Transforms) arelightweight transformationsapplied to individual messages as they pass through Kafka Connect.

Chaining SMTs: You can applymultiple SMTsin sequence by defining them in order in the connector config.

Masking or modifying fieldsis acommon use case(e.g., redacting sensitive data).

FromKafka Connect Documentation:

“Single Message Transforms (SMTs) are applied to individual messages. You can chain multiple SMTs together.”

SMTsdo not perform joins(B is incorrect).

Converters and SMTs areseparate concerns(D is incorrect).

Using assign() givesmanual controlover partition assignment. In this mode:

B is true: The applicationchooses partitionsdirectly without involving the group coordinator.

C is true: Since no group coordination occurs,no rebalancinghappens if a consumer dies.

FromKafka Consumer API Docs:

“assign() manually assigns a list of partitions to this consumer. No coordination takes place and no rebalancing is triggered.”

A is false: subscribe() and assign() aremutually exclusive.

D is incorrect: Partitions don't need to be equal across topics.