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?

Two consumers share the same group.id (consumer group id). Each consumer will

Your topic is log compacted and you are sending a message with the key K and value null. What will happen?

A Zookeeper configuration has tickTime of 2000, initLimit of 20 and syncLimit of 5. What's the timeout value for followers to connect to Zookeeper?

There are 3 producers writing to a topic with 5 partitions. There are 10 consumers consuming from the topic as part of the same group. How many consumers will remain idle?