NVIDIA Certified Associate - Accelerated Data Science

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We scored 50 real NVIDIA Certified Associate - Accelerated Data Science exam questions 1-10 on question complexity and broke the result down by exam domain.

50 questions scored
8 domains
2.0/10 overall complexity

Complexity by exam domain

Higher scores mean more demanding question formats. The exam score is computed over the whole bank, not averaged across domains.

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

Full per-domain breakdown

Blueprint weight, bank size and question format mix for every domain of the exam.

DomainBlueprintQuestionsSingleMultiInteractiveComplexity
Advance Data Structures11%62222.0/10Gentle
Data Manipulation and Preparation23%124442.0/10Gentle
Data Science Pipelines and Workflow Automation11%52212.0/10Gentle
Descriptive Analysis and Visualization10%52212.0/10Gentle
Foundations of Accelerated Data Science10%52212.0/10Gentle
Introductory MLOps Practices10%52212.0/10Gentle
Machine Learning With NVIDIA RAPIDS16%83322.1/10Gentle
Software and Environment Management9%42111.5/10Gentle

How the score is calculated

The formula is fixed and public, so anyone can reproduce these numbers from the same bank.

Every question in the NVIDIA Certified Associate - Accelerated Data Science bank is measured on four signals that can be read directly from the database. Each signal is expressed as a share of the questions in the domain, and the four shares are combined with fixed weights:

  • Multi-select questions (40% weight). Items with more than one correct answer. The candidate has to find all of them, which is the single hardest format in the bank.
  • Scenario questions (30% weight). Questions longer than 150 characters, which describe a situation instead of a definition and therefore test reasoning rather than recall.
  • Interactive questions (20% weight). Items that require reading code or a configuration snippet.
  • Deep explanations (10% weight). Questions whose explanation runs past 300 characters, which signals a concept with real nuance behind it.

The combined share is multiplied by ten to produce a 1-10 score. The exam-level score is computed over the whole bank rather than averaged across domains, so a small domain cannot distort the total. Figures on this page are recomputed from the live bank on every crawl.

Data set: Certilum NVIDIA Certified Associate - Accelerated Data Science Foundation question bank, 50 questions, 8 domains. Published by CERTILUM. This is Certilum’s own measurement of its own question bank and is not an official NVIDIA statistic.

Questions analysed
50
Exam domains
8
Hardest domain
Machine Learning With NVIDIA RAPIDS (2.1)
Most approachable domain
Software and Environment Management (1.5)
Question mix
19 single · 18 multi · 13 interactive
Measured on
Foundation

Frequently asked questions

What our NVIDIA Certified Associate - Accelerated Data Science complexity numbers mean and how they are produced.