Microsoft DP-420 Exam - Topic 2 Question 74 Discussion

C: Avro is binary format, while JSON is text.

F: Kafka Connect for Azure Cosmos DB is a connector to read from and write data to Azure Cosmos DB. The Azure Cosmos DB sink connector allows you to export data from Apache Kafka topics to an Azure Cosmos DB database. The connector polls data from Kafka to write to containers in the database based on the topics subscription.

D: Create the Azure Cosmos DB sink connector in Kafka Connect. The following JSON body defines config for the sink connector.

Extract:

'connector.class': 'com.azure.cosmos.kafka.connect.sink.CosmosDBSinkConnector',

'key.converter': 'org.apache.kafka.connect.json.AvroConverter'

'connect.cosmos.containers.topicmap': 'hotels#kafka'

Incorrect Answers:

B: JSON is plain text.

Note, full example:

{

'name': 'cosmosdb-sink-connector',

'config': {

'connector.class': 'com.azure.cosmos.kafka.connect.sink.CosmosDBSinkConnector',

'tasks.max': '1',

'topics': [

'hotels'

],

'value.converter': 'org.apache.kafka.connect.json.AvroConverter',

'value.converter.schemas.enable': 'false',

'key.converter': 'org.apache.kafka.connect.json.AvroConverter',

'key.converter.schemas.enable': 'false',

'connect.cosmos.connection.endpoint': 'https://<cosmosinstance-name>.documents.azure.com:443/',

'connect.cosmos.master.key': '<cosmosdbprimarykey>',

'connect.cosmos.databasename': 'kafkaconnect',

'connect.cosmos.containers.topicmap': 'hotels#kafka'

}

}

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/sql/kafka-connector-sink

https://www.confluent.io/blog/kafka-connect-deep-dive-converters-serialization-explained/