Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer (CLAD) Practice Exam

The Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer (CLAD) certification, offered by National Instruments (NI), validates your foundational skills in programming using LabVIEW, a graphical development environment for engineers and scientists. Earning this certification demonstrates your ability to create basic LabVIEW programs to acquire data, perform analysis, and automate tasks.

Who should pursue this Certification?

This certification is ideal for:

• Individuals new to LabVIEW: Those with limited LabVIEW experience seeking to establish a solid foundation in LabVIEW programming.
• Students and recent graduates: Enhancing your resume and showcasing your proficiency in a valuable engineering tool.
• Professionals transitioning into LabVIEW development: Validating your skills and demonstrating your ability to contribute to LabVIEW projects.

Prerequisites

• NI recommends having at least six months of LabVIEW development experience.
• Completing the LabVIEW Core 1 and LabVIEW Core 2 courses from NI can substitute for some practical experience.

Roles and Responsibilities 

• Junior LabVIEW Developer: Assisting senior developers with creating and testing basic LabVIEW programs.
• Test Engineer: Automating test procedures using LabVIEW to improve efficiency and accuracy.
• Research Assistant: Developing LabVIEW programs to acquire and analyze data in research projects.
• Field Service Engineer: Using LabVIEW to create diagnostic tools or data acquisition programs for on-site troubleshooting.

Exam Pattern 

• Exam Name: Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer (CLAD)
• Number of Questions: 40
• Length of Time:  1 hour
• Passing Score: 70%
• Exam Language: English, Korean, French, Chinese, German, Spanish

Course Structure

Hardware (10% of exam questions)

• Connecting Hardware: Sensors, DAQ, Devices under test (DUT.
• Acquiring and validating a signal
• Processing signals
• Using appropriate sample rates

LabVIEW Programming Environment (25% of exam questions)

Setting up and using a LabVIEW Project to:

• Data Types
• Predicting order-of-execution and behavio
• Using basic functions to create a simple Acquire-Analyze-Visualize application
• Troubleshooting by identifying and correcting the cause of a broken arrow or incorrect data
• Error handling using error clusters and merge error functions to ensure errors are handled well
• Navigating LabVIEW help to get more information about inputs, outputs, and functions

LabVIEW Programming Fundamentals (50% of exam questions)

• Loops
• Arrays
• Writing conditional code to perform an action based on the value of a user input or a measurement result.
• Reading and Writing data to a file

Programming Best Practices (15% of exam questions)

• SubVIs – Reusing Code
• Clusters – Grouping Data of Mixed Data Types
• Type Defs – Propagate Data Type Changes