CheesyGC

As questions they were fine and cogent, so I'm not surprised they would get past a review. What I am concerned about is why did I have six (I think) questions that covered either XControls or dynamically building a project? Huge over-emphasis on things that in practice are not very typical. Maybe things have changed dramatically in the last few years? The only times I've encountered XControls were during one of the LabVIEW training courses and I think one time on-site at a customer (literally one visit out of hundreds--I was looking at other company's code multiple times a day for several years). And I can think of very few reasons to build a project dynamically/programmatically. I could understand maybe one question on XControls, MAYBE. And that obsession has long been the case in CustEd for as long as I can remember, unfortunately. I should have seen it coming, so shame on me. I don't expect answers here, but I am left wondering a few things: What is the question review process like? Do the external CLAs who review questions have knowledge of the question pool? Are questions rejected if they're too similar to others that are in the pool of questions? If so, doesn't that maybe motivate question writers, who are trying to re-certify by points, to write more obscure/trivial questions? And who decides if it is too similar? What checks are there to make sure one topic isn't horribly overrepresented in an exam? Why is the re-cert content so different than the original practical exam? Why is there so much PMP-ish stuff in an Architect exam (I didn't have a problem with this, but it is confusing when compared to the original exam)? I hope I'm not coming off as overly-upset, because I really am fine with the result given my circumstances and accept the outcome. Yes, these six questions would have been the difference maker, but you know, I could have gotten other questions right and that's on me. But the experience has confirmed what I already suspected about the value and measure of the certifications.

Yes, do it that way for sure. It's a no-brainer. If I were actively or recently doing this type of work and had a user group in the area that is absolutely the way I would have done it. I realize I attempted to do the minimum amount of work to re-certify, I'm just frustrated that after all of these years the CustEd department is just as terrible as ever at writing exam questions (or reviewing and approving them).

I've got bad news for you NelsonUWP, nothing has changed since 2013. Just took the CLA-R even though I haven't done much LabVIEW work for the last three years (I changed industries) because I figured it might be nice to have just in case I wanted to work for a system integrator again (because no one else cares about certifications). I had maybe six questions on either XControls or dynamically building a project. WHY?! No one does this stuff. At least not regularly enough to warrant 20% of the recert exam. And they've had this XControls obsession for years. I was on the fence since the certification has narrow value and wish I could tell my past self to save $100. CustEd is clueless. Just terrible.