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Hello Jaredk, thank for your support, just want to make you one question... as you were student ambassador,
I just have search the NI community forums, and it seems that there are several "CLAD Workshops" which I suppose
might be a good start point to prepare the exam, could you recommend me one? (although it seems they are all similar,
which one you think it is the most complete to prepare the exam?...or something like that)
The CLAD Workshops are hosted at universities which have a LabVIEW Student Ambassador during academic semesters. As such, these workshops will not be relevant to you (as you are taking the exam really soon). Many of the workshop groups have publicly-available resources online, though. Hopefully the resources I linked you to will be sufficient.
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Hello,
I have worked as a National Instruments LabVIEW Student Ambassador (LSA). One of the goals of the LSAs is to prepare students at universities to pass the CLAD. As a result, I am familiar with some of the more recent versions of the CLAD exam. You might find some useful resources here.
From my memory, the CLAD was focused on determining if you understood the language and data flow concepts. Things like loop iterations, execution order, expected output from an operation, etc.
The CLAD exam will ask a few simple questions on a very wide range of topics (see study guide found at link above). Many of the questions do involve looking at code and determining the correct output (often testing your understanding of loops, execution order, etc.) Other questions test your knowledge of specific LabVIEW features and functionality (e.g. queues, notifiers, semaphores). A book might be a useful reference, but isn't necessarily the best thing for CLAD preparation. You should be able to find most of the information you need to pass the CLAD online (and freely available). I strongly recommend taking one of the 2 released CLAD practice exams to see how well-prepared that you are already.
Note that the 2 practice exams may be a bit outdated. Because of this, you might want to build in a buffer to evaluating your performance on the practice exams. If you can score >85% on the practice exams, you are probably fine. If you are below 85% on the practice exams, you might need more preparation.
There will inevitably be questions you cannot answer, and it will have nothing to do with your ability to use LabVIEW. What matters is that you get at least a 70%.
Please take a practice exam and read the CLAD study guide at the link above before you decide what to do next.
Best of luck.
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I just took the CLA today for the first time; as such, I can't say whether or not the exam is now more difficult. However, I can say that, at least at my testing site, LabVIEW 2012 was being used. I'd recommend being prepared to work without the built-in message queues of LabVIEW 2012, just in case.
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