NVIDIA Certified Associate - Accelerated Data Science
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NVIDIA Certified Associate - Accelerated Data Science

NCA-ADS

Prove your RAPIDS and GPU-accelerated data science expertise with the NCA-ADS certification. This exam validates the skills needed to transform, model, and deploy data faster using NVIDIA's full accelerated data science ecosystem.

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ProficientData Manipulation and Preparation

The provided code performs an inner join between two cuDF DataFrames. What row count will be printed?

python
import cudf

left = cudf.DataFrame({'key': [1, 1, 2], 'x': ['a', 'b', 'c']})
right = cudf.DataFrame({'key': [1, 1, 1], 'y': [10, 20, 30]})
result = left.merge(right, on='key', how='inner')
print(len(result))

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