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NVIDIA Generative AI Multimodal Certification Exam

(NCA-GENM)

What is the NVIDIA Generative AI Multimodal Certification (NCA-GENM)?

The NCA Generative AI Multimodal certification is an entry-level credential that validates the foundational skills needed to design, implement, and manage AI systems that synthesize and interpret data across text, image, and audio modalities. The exam is online and proctored remotely, includes 50 questions, and has a 60-minute time limit.

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Certification Exam Details

Duration: 1 hour

Price: $125

Certification level: Associate

Subject: Multimodal generative AI

Number of questions: 50-60 multiple-choice

Prerequisites: A basic understanding of generative AI

Language: English

Validity: This certification is valid for two years from issuance. Recertification may be achieved by retaking the exam.

Credentials: Upon passing the exam, participants will receive a digital badge and optional certificate indicating the certification level and topic.

Who is the Generative Multimodal Certification for?

This certification is designed for associate developer is responsible for contributing to the development, programming, and quality assurance of state-of-the-art generative AI multimodal models. They work with a team of skilled AI professionals to develop datasets, select models to train, train models, and implement model testing and debugging processes. They should have an understanding of the deployment of models for applications. They’ll also be responsible for developing high-quality software design and construction, programming in a variety of languages and platforms, and maintaining system updates.

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Fundamentals of Deep Learning - Open Source Materials

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Learn how to build multimodal models that understand multiple data types using advanced fusion techniques followed by deploying multimodal vision language models as an agent with NVIDIA AI Blueprints for real world applications like robotics, intelligent traffic systems, smart spaces and healthcare.

NCA-GENM Exam Preparation Topics and Recommended Reading

The information below is intended to help you prepare for this exam.
Topics covered, weight per topic, recommended training, and additional readings are provided. 

Core Machine Learning and AI Knowledge

Knowledge of algorithms, conventions, and techniques that allow computers to learn from and make predictions or decisions

Core Machine Learning and AI Knowledge Topics:

  • Control training stability in multimodal settings.
  • Develop content introducing multimodal loss functions.
  • Apply machine learning fundamentals (feature engineering, model comparison, cross-validation).
  • Explain nonsequential neural networks and residual connections.
  • Design statistical analyses for evaluating multimodal pipelines.
  • Develop content for multimodal-specific transfer learning.
  • Track emerging multimodal trends and technologies.
  • Contribute to the design, development, and deployment of energy-efficient, trustworthy multimodal AI models.
  • Apply prompt engineering principles to craft prompts that achieve desired results.
  • Work with deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch.

20%
Exam Weight

Data Analysis

Inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions, and supporting decision-making.

Data Analysis Topics:

  • Awareness of the process of extracting insights from large datasets using data mining, data visualization, and similar techniques.
  • Develop content for attention maps in multimodal settings.
  • Create graphs, charts, or other visualizations to convey the results of data analysis using specialized software.
  • Identify relationships and trends or any factors that could affect the results of research.

10%
Exam Weight

Experimentation

The study of how to perform, evaluate, and interpret experiments, including AI model evaluation and the evaluation of various model architectures.

Experimentation Topics:

  • Assist in developing and testing multimodal AI models.
  • Manage and preprocess data from various sources.
  • Use multimodal models to improve explainability.
  • Test data quality and consistency in a multimodal setting.
  • Test AI models to ensure their accuracy and effectiveness.

25%
Exam Weight

Multimodal Data

Multimodal data involves the integration, curation, and quality assessment of diverse data types such as text, images, audio, time-series, and geospatial information, while also addressing challenges related to missing or incomplete information across these different modalities.

Multimodal Exam Topics:

  • Assist in the deployment and evaluations of model scalability, performance, and reliability under the supervision of a senior team member.
  • Build LLM use cases such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), chatbots, and summarizers.
  • Familiarity with the capabilities of Python natural language packages (spaCy, NumPy, vector databases, etc.).
  • Identify system data, hardware, or software components required to meet user needs.
  • Monitor the functioning of data collection, experiments, and other software processes.
  • Use Python packages (spaCy, NumPy, Keras, etc.) to implement specific traditional machine learning analyses.
  • Write software components or scripts under the supervision of a senior team member.

15%
Exam Weight

Performance Optimization

Performance optimization in AI entails refining multimodal AI models for energy efficiency, trustworthiness, and accuracy through design contributions, transfer learning content development, supervised training enhancements, hyperparameter tuning, rigorous testing, and computational advancements.

Performance Optimization Topics:

  • Enhance computational efficiency and improve the accuracy of outputs in AI models.
  • Optimize the performance of AI models, including tuning hyperparameters.
  • Develop content for multimodal-specific transfer learning.
  • Assist in model training and training optimization under the supervision of a senior team member.

10%
Exam Weight

Software Development

Design and implement neural network architectures, such as U-Nets for generative image tasks, integrate text-to-image AI models like CLIP, and apply prompt engineering to refine and direct the generative capabilities of these systems. Includes familiarity with NVIDIA SDKs such as NVIDIA NeMo™ and NVIDIA Triton™ Inference Server.

Software Development Topics :

  • Collaborate with the client during requirements acquisition, data gathering, progress reporting, deployment, and integration.
  • Ensure adherence to best practices and maintain high standards of software quality and reliability.
  • Use prompt engineering to better influence the output of generative AI models.
  • Build a U-Net to generate images from pure noise and as a type of autoencoder.
  • Generate images from English text prompts using CLIP, and use CLIP to train a text-to-image diffusion model.

15%
Exam Weight

Trustworthy AI

Create and assess ethical, energy-conscious, and reliable artificial intelligence systems that are capable of interpreting and integrating various forms of data, ensuring that they’re designed and applied in a manner that’s transparent, fair, and verifiable.

Trustworthy AI Topics:

  • Describe the ethical principles of trustworthy AI.
  • Describe the balance between data privacy and the importance of data consent.
  • Describe how to use NVIDIA and other technologies to improve AI trustworthiness.
  • Describe how to minimize bias in AI systems.

5%
Exam Weight

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