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NVIDIA-Certified Associate: Generative AI with LLMs

NCA-GENL

Entry-level certification validating foundational knowledge of developing, integrating, and maintaining AI-driven applications using generative AI and large language models with NVIDIA solutions.

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6 Exam-realistic practice tests

360+ questions
Practice exam · NCA-GENLQ 1 / 65
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Labs· 25

# vLLM · 10 concurrent
$ asyncio.gather(…)
wall time ....... 3.8s
throughput ...... 1,842 tok/s
GPU Pro
intermediate45m

Deploy & Serve LLMs in Production (Jupyter)

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# lora · r=16 · alpha=32
$ trainer.train()
trainable ....... 0.8%
eval_loss ....... 1.24
perplexity ...... 3.45
GPU Pro
intermediate45m

Fine-Tune an LLM with LoRA and QLoRA (Jupyter)

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fp16int8nf4
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intermediate40m

Quantize & Optimize LLMs with bitsandbytes

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# torch.profiler · top ops
$ table(sort=cuda_time)
gemm ........ 41%
memcpy ...... 22%
softmax ..... 9%
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intermediate35m

Profile PyTorch Training with the Built-in Profiler

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GPU Pro
advanced40m

Advanced RAG: Hybrid Search + Cross-Encoder Reranking

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buildtestshiproll
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intermediate40m

GPU Container Lifecycle: Build, Test, Ship, Rollback

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advanced45m

Continued Pre-Training: Adapt a Pretrained LM to a New Domain

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intermediate35m

GPU Cost & Efficiency Audit

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CPUDALI
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intermediate30m

NVIDIA DALI: GPU-Accelerated Data Pipelines

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# dedup + tokenize
$ filter_lang("en")
raw ............ 52k → 18k
tokenizer ...... BPE 32k
train_ready .... 16,420
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intermediate45m

Data Preparation for LLM Training

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GPU Pro
advanced55m

RLHF & DPO Alignment

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intermediate45m

Evaluation & Benchmarking LLMs

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util
86%
mem
15GB
temp
74°C
power
310W
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intermediate40m

GPU Observability: From nvidia-smi to a Production Monitoring Stack

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intermediate40m

Inference Serving Patterns: Dynamic Batching, Throughput, and the Triton Mental Model

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run1run2run3run4
GPU Pro
intermediate35m

MLflow Experiment Tracking: From Single Run to Team Workflow

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GPU Pro
intermediate35m

Nsight Systems Profiling: Finding the Bottleneck That Costs You 40% of Your GPU

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intermediate40m

Batch Size & Precision Sweep: Finding Your Sweet Spot

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intermediate45m

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Pipeline with Local Models

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intermediate40m

GPU-Accelerated Data Science with RAPIDS

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intermediate40m

Reproducible Training: The Flags, The Cost, The Artifacts

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intermediate40m

Synthetic Data Generation for Model Training

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advanced55m

Train a Small Language Model from Scratch

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advanced50m

Build a Transformer from Scratch: Attention, Masking & LayerNorm

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GPU Pro
advanced55m

vLLM Production Serving: PagedAttention, Continuous Batching, Prefix Caching

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Hosted Pro
intermediate35m

Build a RAG Pipeline with NVIDIA NIM

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