TobyD Posted August 13, 2008 Report Share Posted August 13, 2008 As promised here I am soliciting advice on how to prepare for my CLA exam (not scheduled yet) and I would appreciate any tips that you care to dole out. I found these two documents that provide a fairly good list of things to focus my studying on: CLA Tasks and Objectives CLA Exam Prep Guide I also have the course material from when I took the LabVIEW advanced class. I'll use that as well. Is there anything else that I should focus on? Any tips to get through the exam on time? How does this exam compare to the CLD in terms of amount of material to complete in 4 hours? I know the NDA is pretty strict on these exams so please don't give away anything that could get you in trouble, but if you have some generic guidance I would love to hear it. Thanks, Toby Quote Link to comment
TobyD Posted August 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2008 QUOTE (TobyD @ Aug 12 2008, 09:06 AM) Is there anything else that I should focus on? Any tips to get through the exam on time? How does this exam compare to the CLD in terms of amount of material to complete in 4 hours? Is it OK to quote myself? Thanks to Ben (neB) for a push in the right direction I was able to contact Zaki Chasmawala - Senior Engineer in Training & Certification at NI. He gave me some good information, including the slides from a CLA prep course that was presented pre-NIWeek. Here's what he had to say... QUOTE (Zaki @ Aug 25 2008, 08:46 PM) The project on the CLA exam is a CLD project for which the UI, data structures are not given and the functionality is not as clearly defined as in the CLD project. For the exam, you will have to complete a project planning document in a Notepad/WordPad document with short answers - three to five sentences or a bulleted list. At a high level, for the project architecture, you will have to develop the following: - main UI - modules (SubVIs with their own hierarchy), - the main architecture (example: producer/consumer with events), - architecture for the modules - major data structures - documentation (in the form of instructions) to developers to complete the functionality. And here are the slides: http://lavag.org/old_files/post-8758-1219768547.zip'>Download File:post-8758-1219768547.zip Quote Link to comment
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