NVIDIA Certified Associate - Accelerated Data Science

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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
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ProficientData Manipulation and Preparation

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?

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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.

Exam complexity score2.0/10Gentle · measured across 50 bank questions
  • 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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