GCP-ADP Data Analysis And Presentation Practice Question
You are building a Looker dashboard and need to calculate the year-over-year growth rate. Which feature should you use to perform this without modifying the underlying SQL?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Looker Table Calculations.
Table calculations allow for creating new measures based on existing data in the Explore interface without affecting the underlying database model.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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BigQuery query parameters.
Why it's wrong here
Query parameters are for filtering, not for performing complex row-wise math.
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Looker Table Calculations.
Why this is correct
Table calculations provide flexible, on-the-fly math capabilities.
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LookML derived tables with persistent caching.
Why it's wrong here
While possible, it is overkill compared to a simple table calculation.
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Database-level User Defined Functions (UDFs).
Why it's wrong here
UDFs modify the underlying database logic, which is unnecessary here.
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