A data engineer is using Amazon QuickSight to build a dashboard to report a company’s...

Option C (LAC-A) is the correct choice because the requirement is to always show the Region-level total even when the visual is drilled down into lower levels (for example, country → city → store). A simple calculated field (Option B) is computed at the row level and then aggregated by the visual, so it will change as the drill-down changes the grain. A table calculation (Option A) is evaluated based on the current visual layout and can vary with the fields placed in the visual, which makes it unreliable for enforcing a fixed “Region total regardless of drill-down.”

A level-aware calculation (aggregate) is specifically intended to “lock” an aggregation to a chosen dimensional level (here: Region). That means you can compute revenue aggregated at the Region level and reuse that value across lower drill levels without it recalculating at city/store granularity. A window LAC (LAC-W) is primarily for windowed analytics (running totals, period-over-period, rank, moving averages) over a partition/order, not for enforcing a fixed dimensional aggregation level. Therefore, LAC-A best matches the requirement.