Medium-Hard Analyze Apache Kafka Multiple Choice

What happens to ordering guarantees when a Kafka producer has max.in.flight.requests.per.connection=5 and retries > 0 but enable.idempotence=false?

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A Ordering is fully preserved because Kafka re-orders on the broker side
B Ordering can be violated if a retry of an earlier batch succeeds after a later batch
C Ordering is only affected across partitions, never within a single partition
D Retries are disabled when max.in.flight > 1

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