Certification
Passed My CLD
Jeff·Þ·Bohrer wrote:
Hey I'm CLD til 2019! as soon as Craig sends that darned confirmation E-Mail
Funny enough, if you got your CLA right now it would only be good through 2018. You'd lose a year of certification by going up. I guess I can't bug you about getting your CLA for another year then.
@crossrulz wrote:
Any plans to take the CLA now? You know we'd love to have you at the CLA Summit in March! And since I haven't given Jeff a hard time lately about getting his CLA...I'll just leave it at that.
Well about that...I just got my test results back and I passed my CLA. I didn't get as good of a grade as I felt I should have, but I passed and am thrilled I never need to do that again. Feel free to give Jeff as hard of a time as you'd like.
Here's a quick summary, instead of making another post. I sat down for 4 hours straight, no breaks, no food. Again I had a few minutes to setup quick drops, and LabVIEW configuration. I got the security system. I got marked down a decent amount for not having as many modules as they thought, were needed, which added to some of the couplingling between modules. This was reflected in the Architecture Development section. I can't remember exactly but I think I had 5-7 modules. A more scalable and modular design would have more but I didn't think about a couple that I should have made. Each module was a queued message handler using variant user events for communication between them. I spent the first hour creating a library with all the components, and core for a single module. Then when I was happy with it I copied it for each of the modules I wanted. Then I went and customized each module with documentation, methods, icons, and subVIs I thought were needed. This left about 2 hours to actually put down all the requirements tags, and document the thing. It was enought time to do everything that was needed, but if I were to do it again I might have not spent so much time on the module core and done something more simple. Style 10/10, Documentation 16.8/20, Requirements Coverage 19.7/30, Architecture Development 29/40.
As for the summit, well I have a new job (last 3 months or so) and while I think they would be open to me traveling for a conference, I think they might make me pick either a summit or NI Week, and I'm still a big part of the LAVA BBQ. So if I am given a choice it'll probably be NI Week. Not set in stone, but yeah not sure you'll see me there this year, but who knows.
Hooovahh wrote:
As for the summit, well I have a new job (last 3 months or so) and while I think they would be open to me traveling for a conference, I think they might make me pick either a summit or NI Week, and I'm still a big part of the LAVA BBQ. So if I am given a choice it'll probably be NI Week. Not set in stone, but yeah not sure you'll see me there this year, but who knows.
First of all, Congrats! That is a rough exam. I have yet to meet somebody who passed it that I didn't think should deserve it. I can't say the same for the CLD.
I start my new job next week. So I likely won't be at the Summit this year either. We'll see about NI Week. But if I had to choose, it would be the CLA Summit in a heartbeat.
Oh I just found an old post, apparently I am now a CLNCA (Certified LabVIEW No Class Architect), I used libraries, but not classes, or the Actor Framework. But I did get marked down for not using Advanced LabVIEW techniques, and that might be what they were referring to. But in my defense I don't think any of the CLA practice exams used classes.
