NVIDIA-Certified Associate: AI in the Data Center (NCA-AIDC)

The NCA-AIDC certification is an entry-level credential that validates the foundational concepts of adopting artificial intelligence computing by NVIDIA in a data center environment.

Prerequisites

Students should have a basic understanding of data center infrastructure.

Recommended training for this certification

Take the “Introduction to AI in the Data Center” self-paced course to learn what AI is and how NVIDIA GPU technologies and solutions take it to the next level. Designed for enterprise professionals and administrators, this course explores an introduction to AI, GPU computing, the NVIDIA AI software architecture, and how to implement and scale AI workloads in the data center. The typical time to complete this course is 3.5 hours.

Exams

Certification Exam Details

  • Duration: One hour
  • Price: $135
  • Certification level: Associate
  • Subject: AI data center and cloud
  • Number of questions: 50
  • Language: English

Candidate audiences:

  • Business line owners
  • Data center technicians
  • Delivery and professional services engineers
  • Developer operations (DevOps) engineers
  • IT managers
  • Networking engineers
  • Sales representatives
  • Systems administration staff
  • Solution architects
  • System architects

Topics covered in the exam include:

  • Accelerated computing use cases
  • AI, machine learning, and deep learning
  • GPU architecture
  • NVIDIA’s software suite
  • Data center considerations for adopting NVIDIA solutions

Recertification

This certification is valid for two years from issuance.

Recertification may be achieved by retaking the exam.