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NVIDIA-Certified Associate: Generative AI LLMs
NVIDIA associate-level certification validating foundational concepts for generative AI and LLM applications with NVIDIA solutions; passing the NCA-GENL examination earns a digital badge and optional certificate, valid for two years from issuance.
Licensing authority: NVIDIA
Initial by examination
- Changes
- Cancellation or rescheduling requires at least 24 hours; the rescheduled date must be within two months of payment. Non-cancellable and non-refundable within 24 hours.
- Credential Validity
- Two years from issuance; recertification by retaking the exam. This holder-specific duration is not an exam retirement date.
- Delivery
- Only the English online remotely proctored NCA-GENL examination is selected. NVIDIA’s freshly retrieved teaching-kit article explicitly describes this named examination as online and remotely proctored and links it to the current NCA-GENL page, whose account, format, duration and registration details remain consistent. The article’s May 31, 2026 limit governs the educational discount, not examination availability; no expired discount or educator-only free seat is claimed. Remote testing requires secure-browser installation, monitoring and recording, identity verification and environment assessment; no remote breaks are allowed.
- Identification
- At least one valid government-issued ID containing photograph and signature; registered name must match. The proctor also checks NVIDIA account information.
- Prerequisite
- A basic understanding of generative AI and large language models.
- Registration
- Create a Certiverse account; schedule and pay for the examination. The current owner page links directly to https://www.certiverse.com/#/checkout/nvidia/store-exam/NCA-GENL. The registration platform redirects to sign-in before showing protected appointment inventory; no account was created and no seat was booked.
- Retakes
- After failure, repurchase with a 14-day waiting period; at most five attempts in the 12 months beginning on the first purchase date.
- Scheduling
- Exams may be scheduled up to 60 days in advance. Actual seats throughout 2026-11-25 through 2027-01-31 have not been reserved or guaranteed; the booking window is not an exam-validity boundary.
- Training
- The owner describes training and readings as recommended preparation; no additional named certification, compulsory course, practical examination or writing examination is imposed in the current examination details or certification process.
- Version Applicability
- The fresh current owner page and current catalogue both identify NCA-GENL and offer registration. No official effective or retirement date was published in the reviewed current pages or found by targeted official-source retirement/replacement searches. Null date boundaries are retained; no historic archived page is used. The three-calendar-month cutoff is 2027-01-28, and the stricter task exclusion applies to any explicit retirement before 2027-03-01.
NVIDIA-Certified Associate Generative AI LLMs Certification Exam
- Provider
- Certiverse
- Format
- English multiple-choice examination; online remote delivery is subject to NVIDIA proctoring, identity verification and secure-browser policies.
- Exam questions
- Total questions: 50–60.
- Time limit
- 1 hour
- Passing score
- Pass/fail; no score is reported. An exact passing threshold is not published in the reviewed materials.
- Exam fee
- USD 125
Examination outline
Core Machine Learning and AI Knowledge (30%)
- Assisted model deployment, scalability, performance and reliability evaluation
- Awareness of extracting insights from large datasets
- Build LLM use cases
- Curate and embed content datasets for RAGs
- Familiarity with machine learning fundamentals
- Familiarity with Python natural language package capabilities
- Read research to identify emerging LLM trends and technologies
- Select and use models to create text embeddings
- Apply prompt engineering principles
- Use Python packages for traditional machine learning analyses
Data Analysis (14%)
- Awareness of extracting insights from large datasets
- Compare models using statistical performance metrics
- Conduct supervised data analysis
- Create specialized data visualizations
- Identify relationships, trends and factors affecting research results
Experimentation (22%)
- Assist in supervised model training and optimization
- Assist in dataset preparation for pretraining, fine-tuning and RLHF
- Assist in LLM hardware or software test design and conduct
- Assist in technology evaluation
- Awareness of or participation in human data collection
- Evaluate and refine existing models and benchmarking
- Execute experiments to evaluate models and pipelines
Software Development (24%)
- Assist in supervised model deployment and evaluation
- Build LLM use cases
- Familiarity with Python natural language package capabilities
- Identify required system data, hardware and software components
- Monitor data collection, experiments and software processes
- Use Python packages for traditional machine learning analyses
- Write supervised software components or scripts
Trustworthy AI (10%)
- Describe ethical principles of trustworthy AI
- Describe data privacy and consent balance
- Describe technologies that improve AI trustworthiness
- Describe minimizing AI bias
Examination sources
- NVIDIA NCA-GENL examination page
NCA-GENL Exam Preparation Topics and Recommended Reading > introduction
- NVIDIA NCA-GENL examination page
Core Machine Learning and AI Knowledge > definition, Exam Topics and Exam Weight (scope-index blocks 661–674)
- NVIDIA NCA-GENL examination page
Data Analysis > definition, Exam Topics and Exam Weight (scope-index blocks 692–700)
- NVIDIA NCA-GENL examination page
Experimentation > definition, Exam Topics and Exam Weight (scope-index blocks 712–722)
- NVIDIA NCA-GENL examination page
Software Development > definition, Exam Topics and Exam Weight (scope-index blocks 735–745)
- NVIDIA NCA-GENL examination page
Trustworthy AI > definition, Exam Topics and Exam Weight (scope-index blocks 760–767)
- NVIDIA NCA-GENL examination page
Certification Exam Details > Number of questions, prerequisites and language
- NVIDIA certification policies
Frequently Asked Questions > Exam Scoring > How are exams scored?
- NVIDIA NCA-GENL examination page
Certification Exam Details > Duration and price
- NVIDIA Technical Blog — Generative AI Teaching Kit
LLM technical certification exam discounts for students > named examinations and delivery; the LLM exam link points to the current NCA-GENL page
- NVIDIA NCA-GENL examination page
About This Exam > account requirement
- NVIDIA NCA-GENL examination page
Ready to Get Certified? > registration link (href=https://www.certiverse.com/#/checkout/nvidia/store-exam/NCA-GENL)
- NVIDIA certification policies
Frequently Asked Questions > Exam Registration, Costs, and Cancellation Policy > scheduling window
- NVIDIA certification policies
Frequently Asked Questions > Exam Check-In and Procedures > identity verification
- NVIDIA certification policies
Frequently Asked Questions > Online Remote Exams > secure browser
- NVIDIA NCA-GENL examination page
Certification Exam Details > prerequisite
- NVIDIA certification policies
Frequently Asked Questions > Exam Registration, Costs, and Cancellation Policy > preparation
- NVIDIA certification policies
Frequently Asked Questions > Exam Registration, Costs, and Cancellation Policy > cancellation and rescheduling
- NVIDIA certification policies
Frequently Asked Questions > Exam Registration, Costs, and Cancellation Policy > rescheduled exam date
- NVIDIA certification policies
Frequently Asked Questions > Retaking Exams