NVIDIA Certified Associate - Accelerated Data Science

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NVIDIA Certified Associate - Accelerated Data Science Exam Format

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Everything the official exam blueprint specifies: question count, time limit, scoring and the weight each domain carries. Designed for data scientists and ML engineers, the NVIDIA Certified Associate - Accelerated Data Science certification demonstrates the ability to use RAPIDS and GPU accelerators to handle large datasets without leaving the familiar Python data science stack. The exam tests practical knowledge of cuDF for data preparation, cuML for machine learning, cuGraph for graph analytics, and Dask for scaling workflows.

50 questions
60 min
70% to pass
8 domains

Exam facts at a glance

What we know about this exam, and where the information comes from.

SpecificationValue
Questions50
Time limit60 minutes (72s per question)
Passing score70%
Domains8
LevelAssociate
Question bank here50 questions
SourceCertilum's own record — the vendor does not publish this figure

Official domain weights

The percentage of the exam each domain carries. Weight your revision by these numbers, not by what you find hardest.

DomainWeightTopicsPractice Qs
Advance Data Structures11%
  • Creating graph structures with cuGraph
  • Graph algorithms for shortest path, centrality, and community detection
  • Analyzing connected components and graph statistics
  • +1 more
6
Introductory MLOps Practices10%
  • Model lifecycle management and experiment tracking
  • Using MLflow for logging, packaging, and serving
  • Building CI/CD pipelines for ML
  • +1 more
5
Data Manipulation and Preparation23%
  • Loading and inspecting data with cuDF
  • Filtering, sorting, grouping, and joining DataFrames
  • Cleaning missing values and converting data types
  • +2 more
12
Machine Learning With NVIDIA RAPIDS16%
  • cuML API and scikit-learn integration
  • Supervised learning models: linear regression, classification, and tree ensembles
  • Unsupervised learning: clustering and dimensionality reduction
  • +2 more
8
Software and Environment Management9%
  • Installing RAPIDS with conda and pip
  • Using NVIDIA GPU Cloud (NGC) containers
  • Managing dependencies and environment reproducibility
  • +1 more
4
Descriptive Analysis and Visualization10%
  • Generating descriptive statistics with GPU-accelerated methods
  • Building histograms, scatter plots, and correlation heatmaps
  • Creating interactive visualizations with cuxfilter
  • +1 more
5
Foundations of Accelerated Data Science10%
  • GPU architecture and CUDA fundamentals
  • RAPIDS ecosystem and its core libraries
  • Data transfer, memory bandwidth, and I/O bottlenecks
  • +1 more
5
Data Science Pipelines and Workflow Automation11%
  • Designing reproducible data pipelines
  • Using Dask for parallel task scheduling
  • Orchestrating workflows with Airflow, Prefect, or Kubeflow
  • +1 more
5

The heaviest domain is Advance Data Structures at 11%, and that is where lost points cost you the most. Certilum scores you per domain so you can see the difference between a knowledge gap and a formatting problem.

Note from the vendor record: Official price per exam on NVIDIA (online proctored, Certiverse). Subject to local taxes; 14-day waiting period between attempts; maximum 5 attempts per year; valid for 2 years. 50-60 questions, 60 min. Official exam page

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