Proctored with identity verification. Online, remotely proctored (Certiverse)
Depth
Associate. Associate level.
Experience expected
None. Only a basic understanding is required.
Portability
Mostly transferable. Mostly general concepts.
Verifiability
Public badge or registry. Credly badge and public directory.
For hiring managers
Niche sibling of NCA-GENL covering text, image and audio modalities; less directly relevant to typical LLM application developers.
Verifying it
Credly digital badge (accepted by the candidate) plus NVIDIA's public certification directory on Credly: https://www.credly.com/organizations/nvidia/directory
What it covers
Published exam outline
Experimentation25%
Core Machine Learning and AI Knowledge20%
Multimodal Data15%
Software Development15%
Data Analysis and Visualization10%
Performance Optimization10%
Trustworthy AI5%
By topic
GenAI apps
Some (10 to 20%). Software Development is 15% and part of Experimentation relates to building with generative models.
Agents
Not covered. Not in the blueprint.
Classical ML
Substantial (20 to 35%). Core ML 20% plus experimentation with model training/evaluation.
Operations
Touched on (under 10%). Performance Optimization (10%) touches deployment concerns.
Data
Substantial (20 to 35%). Multimodal Data 15% plus Data Analysis 10%.
Responsible AI
Touched on (under 10%). Trustworthy AI is 5%.
Exam details
Who the provider says it is for. Same associate-level audience as NCA-GENL (developers, data scientists, ML engineers); see official page
Format
Multiple choice (count given as a range by NVIDIA)