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NVIDIA Certified Associate - Accelerated Data Science
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
- 60 min
- 70% to pass
- 50 bank questions
- 8 domains
Exam syllabus, organized by domain
The official NVIDIA blueprint, with the real weight each domain carries on test day.
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Sample NVIDIA Certified Associate - Accelerated Data Science exam question
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A data scientist must ingest a 12 GB CSV file into a GPU with 16 GB of VRAM using cuDF. Which initial approach is most appropriate to minimize the risk of running out of memory?
Exam facts at a glance
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- Time limit
- 60 minutes
- Passing score
- 70%
- Domains
- 8
- Questions in our bank
- 50
- Level
- ASSOCIATE
- Measured complexity
- 2.0 / 10
- Question mix
- 19 single · 18 multi · 13 interactive
Where the hard questions actually are
We score every question in the bank 1-10 on a reproducible formula. Below is the per-domain breakdown.
- Advance Data Structures6 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle
33% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive
- Data Manipulation and Preparation12 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle
33% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive
- Data Science Pipelines and Workflow Automation5 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle
40% multi-select · 0% scenario · 20% interactive
- Descriptive Analysis and Visualization5 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle
40% multi-select · 0% scenario · 20% interactive
- Foundations of Accelerated Data Science5 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle
40% multi-select · 0% scenario · 20% interactive
- Introductory MLOps Practices5 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle
40% multi-select · 0% scenario · 20% interactive
- Machine Learning With NVIDIA RAPIDS8 questions · complexity 2.1/10 · Gentle
38% multi-select · 0% scenario · 25% interactive
- Software and Environment Management4 questions · complexity 1.5/10 · Gentle
25% multi-select · 0% scenario · 25% interactive
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Frequently asked questions
What you need to know before attempting the NVIDIA Certified Associate - Accelerated Data Science certification.