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LabVIEW Fundamentals Exam for Academia

For Educational Use

The LabVIEW Fundamentals Exam is a useful tool tailored specifically for educational use. The exam provides professors with an excellent opportunity to evaluate the LabVIEW programming ability of current or potential students. Instructors can use the exam as a prerequisite for students to enroll, pass, or proceed in specific classes or simply as a means to challenge students to improve their LabVIEW skills. In addition, the exam provides the ability for students to automatically e-mail their results to their professors.

The LabVIEW Fundamentals Exam for educators also:

  • Provides an easy means for evaluating students upon completion of a course as an exit exam
  • Provides a screening tool for evaluating the student LabVIEW knowledge needed for research or teaching assistant positions involving LabVIEW
  • Provides students with the opportunity to increase their own value in the workforce and potentially translate their knowledge into NI certification

Because the exam is FREE, online, and automated, it requires no additional work for instructors to prepare or grade the exam. Also, the 45-minute time limit allows for the exam to be administered in a single class period.

For Student Use

The LabVIEW Fundamentals Exam helps students quantify their unique levels of LabVIEW knowledge as opposed to just listing LabVIEW as an acquired skill on their resumes. Using this exam, students can practice and assess their skills with the hopes of seeking entry-level NI certification for further career advancement.

Other student benefits of the exam include:

  • Differentiating students' LabVIEW skills on their resumes and indicating LabVIEW proficiency by passing the exam
  • Providing distinction for students having significant and meaningful experience in developing LabVIEW applications

Students that successfully pass the exam are encouraged to convert their LabVIEW comprehension into official NI LabVIEW Certification through the Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer's Exam. The value of LabVIEW certification not only enhances a student's credentials with an industry-standard software package, but it also opens the door to career opportunities that only LabVIEW certification can provide. Learn more about the Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer's Exam.