What is the role of a consumer in Azure Event Hubs?

To read events from an Event Hub

What is the purpose of using managed identities with Azure Event Grid?

To filter events based on user identity

To provide a public endpoint for event publishing

To authenticate to Event Grid without storing credentials

A company runs an Event Hubs namespace with 32 partitions and 1 throughput unit. They have a consumer application that reads all partitions. During a load test, they observe that the consumer is not keeping up with the incoming data. They need to improve processing throughput without changing the number of partitions. What should they do?

Use a single consumer instance with a larger prefetch count.

Increase the throughput units to 4.

Add more consumer instances to the same consumer group.

Reduce the number of partitions to 16.

A team is building a real-time analytics solution that ingests clickstream data from a website. They need to process events in near real-time and also store the raw events for later batch analysis. What should they use?

Azure Event Grid with a webhook to a database.

Azure IoT Hub with a consumer group.

Azure Service Bus with a topic subscription.

Azure Event Hubs with Capture enabled.

A team is creating an Event Hubs namespace for a new application. They need to ensure that only applications within a specific virtual network can access the namespace. What should they configure?

An IP firewall rule allowing the VNet's public IP range.

A shared access policy with manage permission.

A managed identity for the namespace.

A private endpoint and disable public network access.

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A company runs an Event Hubs namespace with 32 partitions and 1 throughput unit. They have a consumer application that reads all partitions. During a load test, they observe that the consumer is not keeping up with the incoming data. They need to improve processing throughput without changing the number of partitions. What should they do?
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A team is building a real-time analytics solution that ingests clickstream data from a website. They need to process events in near real-time and also store the raw events for later batch analysis. What should they use?
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35application · medium
A team is creating an Event Hubs namespace for a new application. They need to ensure that only applications within a specific virtual network can access the namespace. What should they configure?
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