A topic has three replicas and you set min.insync.replicas to 2. If two out of three replicas are not available, what happens when a consume request is sent to broker?

A consumer is configured with enable.auto.commit=false. What happens when close() is called on the consumer object?

A consumer has auto.offset.reset=latest, and the topic partition currently has data for offsets going from 45 to 2311. The consumer group never committed offsets for the topic before. Where will the consumer read from?

Kafka is configured with following parameters - log.retention.hours = 168 log.retention.minutes = 168 log.retention.ms = 168 How long will the messages be retained for?

When using the Confluent Kafka Distribution, where does the schema registry reside?