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The answer is still no. A wire cannot pass data between loops. The example you gave is passing a reference to each loop and using the reference to pass data between the loops, much like a notifier would. You're overthinking the question. Connecting directly to the indicator is the best way to get data to an indicator. You're thinking about the reason why you don't need to update an indicator every loop interation. Which could be a possible question. I'm sure each of us could come up with several disadvantages of the SM VI, but for the intended audiance of this quiz, I feel the selection is appropriate. Can you please explain your response? I will admit this question is a bit ambigous. What type of array are we creating? The initialize array would be the most efficient if we want all values the same or don't care about the element values(i.e. initializing a buffer). You changed the scope of the question. The question is refering the VI->SubVI interaction, not syncronizing actions across parrallel loops. crelf and Roderic are correct the scope of the this exam is directed to entry level programmers, and intended to assess ones compotency in creating VI the perform relatively small scaled actions. The CLD and CLA levels would be better audiences to the sort of questions I think you leaning towards. Also note, the online quiz is just a sampeling of the possible questions that could be asked. I think I remember reading somewhere that the CLAD exam won't include any new feature released in the last two years. But don't qoute me on that. NI has significatly changed and added many courses over the last few years to cover several of the topics you metioned. Though some of the those topics are advanced or fairly new, and might be some time before courses are created, if ever. I can't comment on any of the new classes as I haven't taken them. Check out NI Training.

Yes, you are. I am not against corporations. They are just out of control right now in our society. We need to keep them on a much shorter leash. I would much rather have slow steady growth and a planet we can still survive on then this crazy roller-coaster economy with massive concentrations of wealth and increasing ignorance of scientific facts that point to a worse future for everyone. Nope. Quite the opposite. I think we need better laws to govern them and limit their ability to influence those laws. I don't believe there is one standard moral code. But I know there are external costs (like pollution) that corporations are not forced to incorporate into their profit/loss calculations. This should be changed so corporations make better choices. My main point is a corporation will never make a moral choice. They must be forced to control themselves by a society who enacts laws to govern their behavior. Too many people think corporations will do what is in the public's best interest if you leave them unfettered by regulations. That is pure fantasy. Agreed. I would simply counter with the fact that most people in our society are either unaware, uneducated or unmotivated to take any action that will result in 'free market forces' affecting corporate behavior. Try to keep in mind that you and I live in a very nice bubble of well educated and somewhat politically aware members of our society. We do not represent the majority of our country. So we cannot expect them to act in these ideal free market ways like you listed. We need specialists who understand these complex issues to help create solutions so we have a stable economy. Yes. And all branches of government need to consider the consequences. There is an interesting story (http://www.thisameri..._Transcript.pdf) about how McCain and Feingold sat in the court the day that was decided and commented to each other how it was clear the justices had very little understanding about how campaign financing worked. Yes. Best way to prevent that is to audit the regulators and to remove the perverse incentives (like allowing corporations to choose who regulated then and then having the regulatory agency budget determined by how many companies it regulates. This is one area where competition is VERY bad.) I understand how you feel corporations should have some say in what regulations are imposed on them, but in the real world, that just does not work. Giving them the power they have now has guaranteed failure of regulatory agencies. It is just way to profitable for them to invest in lobbiest than to deal with the costs of a regulation. Go Read this: (http://www.npr.org/b...t-in-a-lobbyist) Agreed. In a feeble attempt to get back on topic, I wonder if the incentives for the convention center to 'green up' their facility will also lead NI to do the same at their corporate headquarters? (yes, I know nobody other than myself and Dave are reading this thread anymore, but at least I tried) Now get back to work! That FPGA must have finished compiling by now!

What do you mean by "how to test"? I agree. If those questions/answers were in the CLD or CLA, then I'd ask for them to be changed, but this test is for a completely different scope. Afford me a story: When I was in my first chem class in college (I was a science-physics major), the lecturer asked us to draw a model of a sodium atom. After some time trying to remember how many electrons it has, and the packed orbital limits, most of us came up with the old nucleus surrounded by co-axial rings. He showed a slide that looked just like that ("whew!"), and then said, although it's certainaly a model that was enough to get us through high school, it was time to abandon it for something closer to the truth, as the old model wasn't accurate enough for what we needed to learn now. So, should the high school ciriculum be changed to teach everyone the latest, greatest and most complex model of the atom? No - because, for the intents and purposes of high shcool, the model that we were taught is just fine. Same goes for tests like this - if you only ask questions that the most savvy architect knows the real answer to, then you're defeating the purpose of the quiz. That said, if there's something blantantly wrong in one of those quizes, or you disagree with the scope, then feel free to ping NI training about it. We've had success in having quizes updated in the past.

If you don't always want to debug, add a context menu item or an off-panel button with a hotkey set. Bury your breakpoint in the event handler of that object, and tada! On-demand block diagram!