Welcome to 'The not so Daily CLAD'

[SercoSteveB]

Apologies for the tardiness of 'The Daily CLAD' this year; a combination of workload, a lack of new material and a consequential lack of motivation have left me without a post since February.  I have some new material to post but not enough to maintain a daily output.  So rather than re-use/re-hash old material I think I will change tack and post more quality (with the usual typos/errors ) less frequently.

Welcome to 'The not so Daily CLAD'

Steve

[AmrOsman]

Hello Steve,

Thank you so much for you postings, they are really helpful. I have a question tho. I have my CLAD exam tomorrow and I viewed same sample CLAD exams (20-ish samples), and they sound really easier than the questions you're posting. Does this mean I haven't viewed enough samples? or you are leveling up with the questions on purpose?

thank you,

[hemanths]

Hi newr16.

Request you to share your exam experience on https://decibel.ni.com/content/blogs/DailyCLAD/2012/04/16/clad-exam-experiences.

[SercoSteveB]

https://decibel.ni.com/content/blogs/DailyCLAD/2012/04/16/clad-exam-experiences

Hi newer16

My recollection of the CLAD is that the Sample Exams seemed easier than the actual examination.  That may have been because the exam is harder or possibly due to the pressure we place on ourselves when we are being examined.  I suspect it is most likely a combination of both.  There are so few sample questions out there that you tend to become familiar with them very quickly and as a consequence it is very easy to form the opinion that you will be as equally familiar with the real exam.  This in itself adds its own pressure during the exam following the realisation that the exam is not as easy as we expected it to be.

I think you will see a lot of commonality between the sample exams and questions you will face in the exam but I doubt that will be enough to get you over the pass line.  You should expect questions (LabVIEW concepts) that are not covered in the samples that really test your knowledge and get you over that pass line, hopefully a good amount of LabVIEW programming and tenacious use of 'The Daily CLAD' will go someway in addressing that knowledge gap.

The Daily CLAD is not intended to be a list of sample questions.  It is a list of LabVIEW concepts that are structured into questions that are formatted in the same way as the CLAD examination.  It is unlikely that the blog covers all of the concepts that NI would like to test in the examination as I have no inside knowledge (other than the exam pre-requisites) and it has been 10+ years since I got a look at the CLAD exam.  One thing I can say is that a few years ago I wrote 30 questions, as part of a reward scheme, for NI to use in the CLAD exams and they were of very similar style and difficulty level to the questions you see in the blog, particuarly the earlier posts.

Good luck tomorrow, please post your experiences to the post linked at the top.

Steve   

[AmrOsman]

Thank you for your reply, Steve! What you are saying makes a lot of sense. I will spend the rest of the day going through the blog, and I will post about my experience tomorrow.

Have a nice day!

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