CLD-R Experience

[jyang72211]

I just took the CLD-R this past friday, and I passed.  However, I do have a few concerns on the exam though.  Without disclosing any informaton on the exam, below are my concerns.

1. For 2 questions that were marked incorrect, I look over them again and again, and i was 99% sure that my answers were correct.  I suspect that there maybe error on the answer key.  How do we reflect that?

2. For questions that were marked incorrect, the correct answers were not shown.  I thought it strange that in the review section, it only indicates that an answer is incorrect but doesn't indicate the correct one.  Maybe I didn't click on a particular button?

[mallorim]

Hi,

I recommend you email certification@ni.com with your concerns and feedback. This email inbox is monitored by the Certifications Operation teams and they will forward it to one of our exam developers to confer over the questions you missed and take your feedback on including the answers. 

Regards,

Mallori

[jyang72211]

Thanks,I will do that.

[JÞB]

See also a Thread subject "Full on Rant"

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Yes, these tests need to be cleaned.

No, they are not worse than any other multiple guess tests.  (They could be!)  Sigh!  It is being fixed according to the profits....

I know that does not thrill you

I do have that need to recert tag in my sig line

[yenknip]

The fundamental flaw in using multiple choice questions for determining a programmer's effectiveness, is that designing and writing software is an incredibly subjective skill. The CLD and CLA exams are a fair means for accreditation, as the programmer can demonstrate their interpretation of a specification and provide a solution, and credit can also be given to candidates for their note-taking and working knowledge. The only skills that can be effectively tested in the CLAD, CLD-R and CLA-R are objective questions which serve little meaning where a look-up resource is available. Furthermore, if a question were to require some form of calculation, working out, or drawing a trace table for an iterative function, then credit cannot be given for clearly demonstrating a full understanding of the task yet deriving an incorrect answer due to an error (and to err is human).

On a tangent, I also get infuriated by the 'new' interview questions. Ridiculously contrived 'logic' questions are a great way to acquire candiates who over-engineer a simple problem.