Which statement correctly distinguishes Looker from Looker Studio?
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Answer: B
Looker is a paid enterprise platform built around LookML, a modeling layer where metrics and business logic are defined once and reused across reports. Looker Studio is a free tool for building self-service reports and dashboards on connected data sources without that central model. The right choice depends on whether governed, centralized definitions are required.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. The roles are reversed. Looker is the governed enterprise platform and Looker Studio is the free self-service tool, so this option swaps the two products.
- C. Both products connect to BigQuery directly, so this claim is false. Looker Studio also reads many sources beyond spreadsheets.
- D. The two are separate products with different licensing and feature sets, not one product under two names.