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Question: What is a Spark Executor and what role does it play in Spark applications?
Answer: A Spark Executor is a process responsible for executing tasks on a worker node. Executors are launched at the beginning of a Spark application and run tasks until the application completes or encounters an error.

Example:

spark-submit --master yarn --deploy-mode client --num-executors 3 mySparkApp.jar
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