Q13 Event Hubs Domain 3 · 20–25% of exam Priority · Real Exam

What determines the maximum number of concurrent consumers that can process in parallel within one consumer group?

  1. A The throughput unit count
  2. B The partition count (correct answer)
  3. C The retention period
  4. D The namespace tier

Shortcut: Each partition is owned by at most one active reader per consumer group. Parallelism therefore has an upper bound equal to the partition count.