Certificationsby GlyphNVIDIA certifications every exam, price and renewal rule
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Exams
13
current
Renew every
2 years
NVIDIA certifications are valid for two years, after which you must retake and pass the exam to recertify.
Price per attempt
$125 to $500
$0$1600
Level mix
2 levels
Associate5Professional8
AI and machine learning 11
NVIDIA Associate AI Model Development CertificationAn associate exam on machine learning engineering, generative AI and AI infrastructure.Associate · 60 minNVIDIA-Certified Associate: AI Infrastructure and OperationsEntry-level credential covering foundational AI computing concepts for infrastructure and operations roles.NCA-AIIO · Associate · 60 min · valid 2 yearsNVIDIA-Certified Associate: Generative AI LLMsEntry-level credential for developers and data scientists building, integrating and maintaining applications with generative AI and LLMs on NVIDIA solutions.NCA-GENL · Associate · 60 min · valid 2 yearsNVIDIA-Certified Associate: Generative AI MultimodalEntry-level credential for people who design and manage AI systems that work across text, image and audio.NCA-GENM · Associate · 60 min · valid 2 yearsNVIDIA-Certified Professional: Agentic AIIntermediate-level credential for practitioners who build, deploy and govern multi-agent AI solutions.NCP-AAI · Professional · 120 min · valid 2 yearsNVIDIA-Certified Professional: Generative AI LLMsIntermediate-level credential for practitioners who design, train and fine-tune LLMs with distributed training and optimization.NCP-GENL · Professional · 120 min · valid 2 yearsNVIDIA-Certified Professional: OpenUSD DevelopmentIntermediate-level credential for OpenUSD developers, pipeline engineers and systems integrators who build, maintain and optimize 3D content creation pipelines using OpenUSD.NCP-OUSD · Professional · 120 min · valid 2 yearsNVIDIA-Certified Professional: AI InfrastructureIntermediate-level credential for data center staff who deploy, configure and validate NVIDIA AI infrastructure.NCP-AII · Professional · 120 min · valid 2 yearsNVIDIA-Certified Professional: AI Rack and InterconnectFor data center infrastructure technicians who rack, cable, power, cool and validate high-density NVIDIA AI cluster deployments.NCP-ARI · Professional · 120 min · valid 2 yearsNVIDIA-Certified Professional: AI NetworkingIntermediate-level credential for data center, network and system administrators and engineers who deploy and configure AI networking with NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet and InfiniBand.NCP-AIN · Professional · 120 min · valid 2 yearsNVIDIA-Certified Professional: AI OperationsIntermediate-level credential for operators who monitor, troubleshoot and optimize NVIDIA AI infrastructure, including a live-cluster lab.NCP-AIOL · Professional · 120 min · valid 2 years
Data engineering and analytics 2
NVIDIA-Certified Associate: Accelerated Data ScienceEntry-level credential for data scientists and engineers using GPU-accelerated tools such as RAPIDS for data science workflows.NCA-ADS · Associate · 60 min · valid 2 yearsNVIDIA-Certified Professional: Accelerated Data ScienceIntermediate-level credential for data scientists who use GPU acceleration across end-to-end data science workflows.NCP-ADS · Professional · 120 min · valid 2 years
Changes
4 exams added to this tracker, latest Nov 6, 2026; each exam page has its own history.
About NVIDIA certification
Renewal
NVIDIA certifications are valid for two years, after which you must retake and pass the exam to recertify.
Retakes
After a failed attempt you buy the exam again and wait 14 days, with at most five attempts at a given exam in a 12-month period.