In a single consumer group, each consumer is assigned to what type of partition?

• A. A different partition
• B. The same partition
• C. Random partition
• D. No partition

Answer: (A)

In a Kafka consumer group, partitions are assigned exclusively to individual consumers. This means each consumer is responsible for different partitions, allowing the group to read in parallel while preserving the order of messages within each partition. If there are more partitions than consumers, some consumers will handle multiple partitions; if there are more consumers than partitions, some may have no partitions. So, in general, each consumer is assigned to a different partition. If there’s only one member in the group, that single consumer would handle all partitions.