We're so g(c)lad we passed!

[Ben]

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Jhoskins wrote:

WOW Ben that is great news. Congratulations!!!!!!!

... Although you will have the smell of dirty diapers in the trash.

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Thanks Joe!

They live so far out in the country that can burn their trash... so not a problem.

Rayner Family Story:

While finsihing of their new home, my son ws around back burrying the water line, my brother was inside plumbing and my father was tending the burn barrel. While working my son heard a loud explosion from out front. He dropped everything and ran around front. On the way he meet my father (coming the other way at high speed). My son said there was still stuff falling from the sky when he got out front. It turns out that the warning about "do no incinerate" printed on the side of Great Stuff expanding foam was there for a reason. When discussing this with my sister and razing my father about "Shouldn't you loose your life-time mebership to the Library Volunteer Fire Company over that?" she mumbled something about "Rayners never read instructions."

Ben

[lmtis]

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Ben wrote:

I'm doubly excited so please excuse me. 

[Set proud popa mode = True]

1) We have added yet another CLA to our collection so we (Data Science Automation) now have EIGHT Architects in-house!

2) At 22:10 last night my newly arrived granddaughter made me a gradfather. She weighs in at 10 pound 1 oz, measuring 21 inches, and sporting a head of curly hair like her father and mother. I hope to meet her after work today! 

[Set proud popa mode = False] <<<<----- yeah right, I ain't buyin' that one!

Ben

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Congratulations Ben!

[RobCole]

Congrats Ben. Just make sure the baby is well shielded when someone is burning things. Sounds like a dangerous place to be (says the person who's intentionally blown stuff up).

And shouldn't that have been: [Set pround grandpa  mode = True]?

     Rob

Message Edited by Robert Cole on 12-19-2008 01:30 PM

[Intaris]

Yay, got my CLAD.  95% 2 answers wrong. 

Problem is there were 5 or 6 questions where I wasn's sure what was being asked due to some slight ambiguities in the phrasing of the question so I don't know which answers were wrong.

One question on my Exam was about pressing a boolean control...... It didn't state whether it was pressing and not letting go or pressing and letting go.  The answer depended on it, but the question left enough wiggle room to interpret it different ways......  Somebody should really clear up the questions used to get rid of ambiguous terminology.

I found myself traing to simplify my way of thinking when answering the questions in order to not get too technical about the questions.  Seems to have more or less worked out anyway.  Ockham's razor: If the question can be interpreted in many ways, choose the simplest.....

Shane.

[RobCole]

I know what you mean about some of the questions.

When I took my CLAD, there was one question that I could prove the answers were not mathematically possible (you can't add two small positive numbers and get a negative number). All I could do was choose the answer that had the correct number format. I don't know if I got that correct or not.

I wrote an email to the training and certification coordinator.

Congrats on getting your CLAD.

      Rob

[Joe_H]

Congrats on passing the CLAD Shane. I also had the same type of questions on my CLAD Exam. Basically I just guessed at the answer that was the closest to what I came up with. My score was not as good as yours but a Passing grade is still a Passing grade.

Have fun if you go for the CLD. Just to let you know, if you do go for the CLD exam, the prep exams on line are no where near what the actual test is like.

[Darren]

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Jhoskins wrote:

Have fun if you go for the CLD. Just to let you know, if you do go for the CLD exam, the prep exams on line are no where near what the actual test is like.

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You think so? I found the CLD to be quite similar in structure and difficulty to the sample exams.

-D

[Joe_H]

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Darren wrote:

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Jhoskins wrote:

Have fun if you go for the CLD. Just to let you know, if you do go for the CLD exam, the prep exams on line are no where near what the actual test is like.

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You think so? I found the CLD to be quite similar in structure and difficulty to the sample exams.

-D

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The structure was pretty much the same but there were A LOT MORE requirements on my test then in any of the examples. In fact it was more than double the requirements then the examples.

[RobCole]

I've written the CLD twice and the first time, the work was easy but the amount of it made it impossible for me to finish in 4 hours.

The second time, it was far simpler and I even had time to run a number of tests on the finished program. It seems to vary widely.

And, yes, I got my CLD the second time around.

We have 6 more people in our office writing the CLD exam this April. It will be interesting to hear from them what they thought of it.

     Rob

[Wayne.C]

                            

 Just got the news that I passed the CLAD.  Kudos to NI for offering the test for free at a Developer Day.