What does it cost?
The NCP-AAI exam costs $200.
Exam fee
$200
Source: NVIDIA exam page
NVIDIA exam
NCP-AAI Exam facts
NVIDIA-Certified Professional: Agentic AI
- Questions
- 60-70
- Minutes
- 120
- Exam fee
- $200
Independent: not affiliated with NVIDIA. These exam facts are free; the study bundle adds a study guide and two practice exams.
Short answer
NCP-AAI is the exam for the NVIDIA-Certified Professional: Agentic AI certification, for developers and ML engineers who build and operate LLM-based agents in production. The exam has 60-70 questions in 120 minutes and costs $200.
Sources: exam page, exam guide (PDF)
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Edition 1.0, October 2026
How many questions and how long?
The NCP-AAI exam has 60-70 questions in 120 minutes.
Source: NVIDIA exam page
The exam
- Questions
- 60-70
- Time
- 120 minutes
- Languages
- English
What score do you need to pass?
NVIDIA does not publish a passing score for NCP-AAI.
Source: NVIDIA page
What does the exam cover?
NVIDIA lists ten NCP-AAI domains. This page and the study guide group them into five: Group 1 (domain 1) 15%, Group 2 (domains 2 and 5) 25%, Group 3 (domains 6 and 7) 17%, Group 4 (domains 4 and 8) 18% and Group 5 (domains 3, 9 and 10) 23%, each group's weight being the sum of NVIDIA's weights for its domains.
Source: NVIDIA exam guide (PDF)
G115%
Agent architecture and design
G225%
Development, cognition, planning and memory
G317%
Knowledge, data and the NVIDIA platform
G418%
Deployment, scaling and operations
G523%
Evaluation, safety and human oversight
Agent architecture and design
Domain 1 on NVIDIA (PDF)Development, cognition, planning and memory
Domains 2 and 5 on NVIDIA (PDF)Knowledge, data and the NVIDIA platform
Domains 6 and 7 on NVIDIA (PDF)Deployment, scaling and operations
Domains 4 and 8 on NVIDIA (PDF)Evaluation, safety and human oversight
Domains 3, 9 and 10 on NVIDIA (PDF)Inside the study bundle
Study guide chapters
Ten chapters. Chapters 3 to 7 cover the five exam groups, weighted like the exam.
- 01 What the exam is p. 3
- 02 The NVIDIA agentic stack: a map of the names p. 8
- 03 Agent architecture and design p. 14
- 04 Agent development, cognition, planning and memory p. 21
- 05 Knowledge integration, data handling and the NVIDIA platform p. 29
- 06 Deployment, scaling, and run, monitor and maintain p. 36
- 07 Evaluation, safety and human oversight p. 42
- 08 Final review p. 52
- 09 Sources p. 58
- 10 Edition and updates p. 60
Look inside the study guide
Three pages of the Edition 1.0 study guide: the contents and the first two pages of a chapter.
What is free here, and what is in the bundle?
The exam facts and 5 sample questions are free on this site. The study guide chapters and the two practice exams are in the bundle.
| Item | Free on this site | In the bundle |
|---|---|---|
| Exam facts and change log | Yes, with links to the NVIDIA sources | Chapter 1 of the study guide sums up the exam's format and scoring. |
| 5 sample questions | Yes | No. None of the 5 appear in the practice exams. |
| Group chapters and final review | No | Yes, in the study guide |
| Two practice exams with answer keys | No | Yes, 130 questions with an explanation for every answer |
Questions before you buy
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Does it include real exam questions?
No, the NCP-AAI bundle contains no exam questions, and every practice question is original.
How is the NCP-AAI bundle different from NVIDIA's free materials?
NVIDIA's free pages set out what the NCP-AAI exam covers. The NCP-AAI bundle adds a 60-page study guide that covers every exam domain, and two practice exams with 130 original questions, every answer explained. When NVIDIA revises the exam, a new edition follows if the changes warrant it, included while your access lasts.
How do I get updates?
Updates to the NCP-AAI bundle arrive as new editions. Every bundle includes 6 months of access: download the PDFs, and any new editions, until 6 months after your purchase date. Download each new edition at overqual.com/download with the license key from your receipt email. The change log on the exam facts page says what changed.
Can I get a refund?
No. Sales of the NCP-AAI bundle are final, because downloaded PDFs cannot be returned. Read the free exam facts and try the 5 free sample questions first. If a download fails or you paid twice by mistake, contact Overqual to have the download fixed or the second payment refunded.
Does NCP-AAI replace an earlier NVIDIA exam?
NVIDIA does not say that NCP-AAI replaces an earlier exam: neither the exam page nor the NVIDIA certification page names a predecessor or a retirement date. The certification page lists NCP-AAI among the NVIDIA-Certified Professional exams.
Does the NCP-AAI exam include hands-on labs?
NCP-AAI is described on the exam page as an online, remotely proctored exam of 60-70 questions with a 120-minute time limit. The page does not mention labs, a lab environment or performance-based tasks, and it does not describe the question types.
Why do the NCP-AAI domain weights differ between the exam page and NVIDIA's study guide?
NCP-AAI has ten domains on both NVIDIA sources, but the exam page prints Deployment and Scaling at 13% and Run, Monitor, and Maintain at 5%, while NVIDIA's NCP-AAI study guide (PDF) prints 5% and 7%. The exam page's figures sum to 98% and the PDF's to 92%; the other eight weights match. This site uses the exam page's figures.
Ready for NCP-AAI?
Three PDFs, 110 pages: the study guide and two practice exams.
Which NVIDIA products does NVIDIA's NCP-AAI study guide name?
Domain 7, NVIDIA Platform Implementation (7%), is the only NCP-AAI domain whose task statements name NVIDIA products: NeMo Guardrails, NIM microservices, the NeMo Agent Toolkit, TensorRT-LLM and Triton Inference Server. The other tools below come from the suggested readings in NVIDIA's study guide, plus Docker and Kubernetes from task 4.4.
Inference and serving
- NVIDIA NIM microservices
- NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM
- NVIDIA Triton Inference Server (now named Dynamo-Triton on developer.nvidia.com)
NeMo
- NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails
- NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit (some readings use the earlier names Agent Intelligence Toolkit and AIQ Toolkit)
- NVIDIA NeMo Framework and NeMo RL
Models, hardware and telemetry
- Llama Nemotron models (Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct in the readings)
- NVIDIA DGX Cloud benchmarking
- NVIDIA Nsight Systems
- Kube Prometheus for GPU telemetry
Open-source tools in NVIDIA's study guide
- Docker and Kubernetes
- LangChain and LlamaIndex
- Milvus
How is it delivered?
The NCP-AAI exam is online with remote proctoring, through a Certiverse account.
- Delivery
- Online with remote proctoring, through a Certiverse account
- Languages
- English
- Prerequisites
- 1-2 years of experience in AI/ML roles and hands-on work with production-level agentic AI projects
- Validity
- Valid for two years from issuance
- Retakes
- 14-day waiting period; no more than five attempts per exam in 12 months
Source: NVIDIA exam page
Fact sheet
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- Questions
- 60-70 Source: NVIDIA exam page
- Time
- 120 minutes Source: NVIDIA exam page
- Fee
- $200 Source: NVIDIA exam page
- Languages
- English Source: NVIDIA exam page
- Delivery
- Online with remote proctoring, through a Certiverse account Source: NVIDIA exam page
- Validity
- Valid for two years from issuance Source: NVIDIA exam page
- Prerequisites
- 1-2 years of experience in AI/ML roles and hands-on work with production-level agentic AI projects Source: NVIDIA exam page
- Retakes
- 14-day waiting period; no more than five attempts per exam in 12 months Source: NVIDIA page
- Group weights
- G1 15% / G2 25% / G3 17% / G4 18% / G5 23% Source: NVIDIA exam guide (PDF)
- Credential
- Digital badge and optional certificate Source: NVIDIA exam page
- Results
- Pass/fail; no score is given Source: NVIDIA page
- Exam domains
- 10 domains, 53 numbered task statements Source: NVIDIA exam guide (PDF)
- Exam Preparation topics
- Five topic headings without weights Source: NVIDIA exam page
- Level
- Intermediate-level credential; certification level Professional Source: NVIDIA exam page
- Candidate audiences
- Software developers, software engineers, solutions architects, machine learning engineers, data scientists, AI strategists, AI specialists Source: NVIDIA exam page
- Recommended training
- Five NVIDIA courses Source: NVIDIA exam page
- NVIDIA study guide
- PDF, 13 pages, marked Sep25 Source: NVIDIA exam guide (PDF)
- Scheduling, cancellation and rescheduling
- Schedule up to 60 days ahead; cancel or reschedule at least 24 hours before the session Source: NVIDIA page
- Breaks
- Not allowed in remotely proctored exams Source: NVIDIA page
- Identification
- At least one form of valid government-issued ID with photograph and signature Source: NVIDIA page
- Exam questions contact
- NVIDIA certification support, by email; the address is on the exam page Source: NVIDIA exam page
What has changed, and when?
Changes to the exam and to the products it covers, newest first.
- NVIDIA renamed the Agent Intelligence toolkit (AIQ) to NeMo Agent toolkit; some study guide readings keep the old name. NVIDIA page
To watch NVIDIA directly, check the exam page.