
Exam format
NVIDIA Certified Professional - Agentic AI Exam Format
Everything the official exam blueprint specifies: question count, time limit, scoring and the weight each domain carries. The NVIDIA Certified Professional - Agentic AI certification validates advanced skills for engineers and technical professionals who build intelligent agents using NVIDIA technology. The exam covers the full agent lifecycle from architecture and development to evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and governance. Candidates demonstrate applied knowledge in orchestration, cognition, memory, RAG, safety, and human oversight. The credential is intended for AI engineers, solution architects, and technical leads who implement production-ready agent systems with NVIDIA NIM, NeMo, and accelerated infrastructure.
- 60 questions
- 120 min
- 70% to pass
- 10 domains
Exam facts at a glance
What we know about this exam, and where the information comes from.
| Specification | Value |
|---|---|
| Questions | 60 |
| Time limit | 120 minutes (120s per question) |
| Passing score | 70% |
| Domains | 10 |
| Level | Professional |
| Question bank here | 60 questions |
| Source | Certilum'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.
| Domain | Weight | Topics | Practice Qs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent Development | 15% |
| 9 |
| Evaluation and Tuning | 13% |
| 8 |
| Deployment and Scaling | 13% |
| 8 |
| Run, Monitor, and Maintain | 5% |
| 3 |
| Agent Architecture and Design | 15% |
| 9 |
| NVIDIA Platform Implementation | 7% |
| 4 |
| Safety, Ethics, and Compliance | 5% |
| 3 |
| Cognition, Planning, and Memory | 10% |
| 6 |
| Human-AI Interaction and Oversight | 7% |
| 4 |
| Knowledge Integration and Data Handling | 10% |
| 6 |
The heaviest domain is Agent Development at 15%, 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. 2 hours. Official exam page
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