Q15 Event Hubs Domain 3 · 20–25% of exam

An application uses the Event Processor Host (EPH) SDK to consume events. What does EPH provide that a basic EventHubConsumerClient does not?

  1. A Higher throughput
  2. B Partition ownership coordination, checkpointing, and load balancing across multiple processor instances (correct answer)
  3. C Support for consumer groups
  4. D Avro deserialization

Shortcut: Event Processor Host (now EventProcessorClient) coordinates partition ownership across multiple instances, enabling parallel processing. It persists checkpoints so processing resumes after restarts.