CLD Exam

[JamesMa]

Today my friends I took my CLD exam.  I'm thinking I must have passed, but the protor told me I may not see results until a month from now.  Just wondering how it went for others on the board.  My program functioned properly, I utilized a Producer/Consumer state machine, and I documented to the best of my abilities.  The only things I am really concerned about is my style of documentation and timing.  For timing I used a "Wait" set at 100ms in the Consumer.  I documented everything to the best of my abilities, but still that is an area that I am usually lacking when it comes to Lab VIEW.  As I said, the program was fully functioning when I finished.

Any thoughts?  Don't even have to tel me if you think I passed, what was your experience with the test like?

[Hooovahh]

This might be more appropriate in the Certification subforum.

That being said when I took my CLD it seemed to take forever to get my results.  I think it was probably 2 months, and then another 2 months before I got my swag in the mail.  I walked out of mine knowing I did pretty well.  If you feel confident, you probably passed.  If you didn't pass, well go over to the certification board I linked to and post some sample exams.  They like to point out places that you can improve, and maybe speed up development.

[billko]

If you bug the NI educational dept enough you could proabably get them to look at your test more quickly.  I got them to grade the test the same day they received it!  I don't remember why it was so important to get the results so quickly, but I had a legit excuse.  Use the rep that helped you schedule your test.

[crossrulz]

It took about 6 weeks for me to get my CLED results and the guys that took the CLD at the same time also got their results the same time I did.  Granted, there was NI Week just a couple of weeks after we took the exams, so I expected to have to wait.  Last I heard, 1 month is the normal turnaround time.

[Jacobson-ni]

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@billko wrote:

I got them to grade the test the same day they received it!

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I'm more impressed with this than any actual results.  Took my CLA 3 weeks ago and am trying my best to just forget about it.

[Stranman]

I just took the CLD in early August.  The proctor stated NI's grading goal is to get the results out within 4 weeks, and I found out EXACTLY to the day that I passed.  

I thought I had more functionality than what the grading indicated, but I don't know how some of the stuff is weighed, and I passed so I don't really care 🙂

The style and documentation points are pretty easy to come by, assuming you're regularly developing "good" LabVIEW code.

Best of luck!