Core Concepts interview questions

18 real Core Concepts questions from the Message Queues bank, as asked in Indian campus drives and tech interviews. Every question has a verified answer and an AI-tutor explanation on placd — free to start.

1. What is Producer?

Junior
  1. A.a named logical channel to which messages are published and from which interested parties subscribe
  2. B.a monotonically increasing position that identifies a record's location within a partition's log
  3. C.the component that creates and sends messages into a broker or destination
  4. D.the component that reads and processes messages from a destination
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3. Which statement is correct?

Junior
  1. A.Producer — a horizontal slice of a topic that allows messages to be spread across nodes for parallelism
  2. B.Producer — the component that reads and processes messages from a destination
  3. C.Producer — a monotonically increasing position that identifies a record's location within a partition's log
  4. D.Producer — the component that creates and sends messages into a broker or destination
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4. What is Consumer?

Junior
  1. A.the component that creates and sends messages into a broker or destination
  2. B.the intermediary server that receives, stores, and routes messages between senders and receivers
  3. C.the component that reads and processes messages from a destination
  4. D.a monotonically increasing position that identifies a record's location within a partition's log
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6. Which statement is correct?

Junior
  1. A.Consumer — a named logical channel to which messages are published and from which interested parties subscribe
  2. B.Consumer — the component that reads and processes messages from a destination
  3. C.Consumer — the intermediary server that receives, stores, and routes messages between senders and receivers
  4. D.Consumer — the component that creates and sends messages into a broker or destination
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7. What is Broker?

Junior
  1. A.the intermediary server that receives, stores, and routes messages between senders and receivers
  2. B.a horizontal slice of a topic that allows messages to be spread across nodes for parallelism
  3. C.the component that reads and processes messages from a destination
  4. D.the component that creates and sends messages into a broker or destination
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9. Which statement is correct?

Junior
  1. A.Broker — the intermediary server that receives, stores, and routes messages between senders and receivers
  2. B.Broker — the component that reads and processes messages from a destination
  3. C.Broker — a monotonically increasing position that identifies a record's location within a partition's log
  4. D.Broker — the component that creates and sends messages into a broker or destination
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10. What is Topic?

Mid
  1. A.the intermediary server that receives, stores, and routes messages between senders and receivers
  2. B.the component that creates and sends messages into a broker or destination
  3. C.a named logical channel to which messages are published and from which interested parties subscribe
  4. D.a horizontal slice of a topic that allows messages to be spread across nodes for parallelism
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12. Which statement is correct?

Mid
  1. A.Topic — a horizontal slice of a topic that allows messages to be spread across nodes for parallelism
  2. B.Topic — a named logical channel to which messages are published and from which interested parties subscribe
  3. C.Topic — a monotonically increasing position that identifies a record's location within a partition's log
  4. D.Topic — the intermediary server that receives, stores, and routes messages between senders and receivers
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13. What is Partition?

Mid
  1. A.the component that creates and sends messages into a broker or destination
  2. B.the intermediary server that receives, stores, and routes messages between senders and receivers
  3. C.a named logical channel to which messages are published and from which interested parties subscribe
  4. D.a horizontal slice of a topic that allows messages to be spread across nodes for parallelism
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15. Which statement is correct?

Mid
  1. A.Partition — a named logical channel to which messages are published and from which interested parties subscribe
  2. B.Partition — a horizontal slice of a topic that allows messages to be spread across nodes for parallelism
  3. C.Partition — a monotonically increasing position that identifies a record's location within a partition's log
  4. D.Partition — the component that creates and sends messages into a broker or destination
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16. What is Offset?

Mid
  1. A.a horizontal slice of a topic that allows messages to be spread across nodes for parallelism
  2. B.a monotonically increasing position that identifies a record's location within a partition's log
  3. C.a named logical channel to which messages are published and from which interested parties subscribe
  4. D.the component that creates and sends messages into a broker or destination
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18. Which statement is correct?

Mid
  1. A.Offset — the intermediary server that receives, stores, and routes messages between senders and receivers
  2. B.Offset — the component that creates and sends messages into a broker or destination
  3. C.Offset — a monotonically increasing position that identifies a record's location within a partition's log
  4. D.Offset — a horizontal slice of a topic that allows messages to be spread across nodes for parallelism
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