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120 min
60-70
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NCP Exam Topics and Domains

NCP is organized into 10 weighted domains.

1

Agent Architecture and Design

15%

Design user interfaces for intuitive human-agent interaction.

Design user interfaces for intuitive human-agent interaction.

Implement reasoning and action frameworks (e.g., ReAct).

Implement reasoning and action frameworks (e.g., ReAct).

Configure agent-to-agent communication protocols for collaboration.

Configure agent-to-agent communication protocols for collaboration.

Manage short-term and long-term memory for context retention.

Manage short-term and long-term memory for context retention.

Orchestrate multi-agent workflows and coordination.

Orchestrate multi-agent workflows and coordination.

Apply logic trees, prompt chains, and stateful orchestration for multi-step reasoning.

Apply logic trees, prompt chains, and stateful orchestration for multi-step reasoning.

Integrate knowledge graphs to enable relational reasoning.

Integrate knowledge graphs to enable relational reasoning.

Ensure adaptability and scalability of the agent's architecture.

Ensure adaptability and scalability of the agent's architecture.

2

Agent Development

15%

Engineer prompts and dynamic prompt chains for reliable performance.

Engineer prompts and dynamic prompt chains for reliable performance.

Integrate generative and multimodal models (text, vision, audio).

Integrate generative and multimodal models (text, vision, audio).

Build and connect custom tools, APIs, and functions for external system interaction.

Build and connect custom tools, APIs, and functions for external system interaction.

Implement error handling (retry logic, graceful failure recovery).

Implement error handling (retry logic, graceful failure recovery).

Develop dynamic conversation flows with real-time streaming and feedback mechanisms.

Develop dynamic conversation flows with real-time streaming and feedback mechanisms.

Evaluate and refine agent decision-making strategies.

Evaluate and refine agent decision-making strategies.

3

Evaluation and Tuning

13%

Implement evaluation pipelines and task benchmarks to measure performance.

Implement evaluation pipelines and task benchmarks to measure performance.

Compare agent performance across tasks and datasets.

Compare agent performance across tasks and datasets.

Collect and integrate structured user feedback for iterative improvements.

Collect and integrate structured user feedback for iterative improvements.

Tune model parameters (e.g., accuracy, latency-efficiency trade-offs).

Tune model parameters (e.g., accuracy, latency-efficiency trade-offs).

Analyze evaluation results to guide targeted optimization.

Analyze evaluation results to guide targeted optimization.

4

Deployment and Scaling

13%

Deploy and orchestrate multi-agent systems at production scale.

Deploy and orchestrate multi-agent systems at production scale.

Apply MLOps practices for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) workflows, monitoring, and governance.

Apply MLOps practices for CI/CD workflows, monitoring, and governance.

Profile performance and reliability under distributed system loads.

Profile performance and reliability under distributed system loads.

Scale deployments using containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) with load balancing.

Scale deployments using containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) with load balancing.

Optimize deployment costs while ensuring high availability.

Optimize deployment costs while ensuring high availability.

5

Cognition, Planning, and Memory

10%

Implement memory mechanisms for short- and long-term context retention.

Implement memory mechanisms for short- and long-term context retention.

Apply reasoning frameworks (chain-of-thought, task decomposition).

Apply reasoning frameworks (chain-of-thought, task decomposition).

Engineer planning strategies for sequential and multi-step decision-making.

Engineer planning strategies for sequential and multi-step decision-making.

Manage stateful orchestration to coordinate complex tasks and knowledge retention.

Manage stateful orchestration to coordinate complex tasks and knowledge retention.

Adapt reasoning strategies based on prior experiences and feedback.

Adapt reasoning strategies based on prior experiences and feedback.

6

Knowledge Integration and Data Handling

10%

Implement retrieval pipelines (RAG, embedded search, hybrid approaches).

Implement retrieval pipelines (RAG, embedded search, hybrid approaches).

Configure and optimize vector databases for fast retrieval.

Configure and optimize vector databases for fast retrieval.

Build extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines to integrate enterprise or client data sources.

Build ETL pipelines to integrate enterprise or client data sources.

Conduct data quality checks, augmentation, and preprocessing.

Conduct data quality checks, augmentation, and preprocessing.

Enable real-time access and reasoning over structured and unstructured knowledge.

Enable real-time access and reasoning over structured and unstructured knowledge.

7

NVIDIA Platform Implementation

7%

Integrate NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails for compliance and safety enforcement.

Integrate NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails for compliance and safety enforcement.

Deploy NVIDIA NIM microservices for high-performance inference.

Deploy NVIDIA NIM microservices for high-performance inference.

Optimize workflows with the NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit.

Optimize workflows with the NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit.

Leverage NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM and Triton Inference Server for latency reduction.

Leverage NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM and Triton Inference Server for latency reduction.

Manage and optimize multimodal input pipelines on NVIDIA hardware.

Manage and optimize multimodal input pipelines on NVIDIA hardware.

8

Run, Monitor, and Maintain

5%

Define monitoring dashboards and reliability metrics.

Define monitoring dashboards and reliability metrics.

Track logs, errors, and anomalies for root cause diagnosis.

Track logs, errors, and anomalies for root cause diagnosis.

Continuously benchmark deployed agents against prior versions.

Continuously benchmark deployed agents against prior versions.

Implement automated tuning, retraining, and versioning in production.

Implement automated tuning, retraining, and versioning in production.

Ensure continuous uptime, transparency, and trust in live deployments.

Ensure continuous uptime, transparency, and trust in live deployments.

9

Safety, Ethics, and Compliance

5%

Design and enforce system security and audit trails.

Design and enforce system security and audit trails.

Integrate compliance guardrails (privacy, enterprise policy).

Integrate compliance guardrails (privacy, enterprise policy).

Mitigate bias and toxicity in outputs.

Mitigate bias and toxicity in outputs.

Deploy layered safety frameworks (filters, escalation protocols).

Deploy layered safety frameworks (filters, escalation protocols).

Ensure compliance with licensing and regulatory standards.

Ensure compliance with licensing and regulatory standards.

10

Human-AI Interaction and Oversight

5%

Build intuitive UIs with user-in-the-loop interaction.

Build intuitive UIs with user-in-the-loop interaction.

Design structured feedback loops that guide iterative agent improvements.

Design structured feedback loops that guide iterative agent improvements.

Implement transparency mechanisms (explainable reasoning, decision traceability).

Implement transparency mechanisms (explainable reasoning, decision traceability).

Enable human oversight and intervention for accountability and trust.

Enable human oversight and intervention for accountability and trust.

How do I earn this certification?

Passing NCP earns the NVIDIA-Certified Professional: Agentic AI certification. It sits in the Generative AI / Agentic AI track.

Current Level Exams
  • NCP-AAI - NVIDIA-Certified Professional: Agentic AI
  • NCP-GENL - NVIDIA-Certified Professional: Generative AI LLMs
Alternative Paths
  • NCA-GENM - NVIDIA-Certified Associate: Generative AI Multimodal Complementary multimodal generative AI skills
  • NCP-AIO - NVIDIA-Certified Professional: AI OperationsOperations/MLOps skills complementary to deploying and maintaining agentic systems
  • NCP-ADS - NVIDIA-Certified Professional: Accelerated Data Science Data handling and pipeline skills complementary to knowledge integration

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What's changed on this exam?

Current Status
  • COMING_SOON
  • Last content update: 2025-09 (study guide document revision 'Sep25', code 4230000)
Updates
  • NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit / Agent Intelligence Toolkit Explicitly referenced in NVIDIA Platform Implementation domain (7.3)
  • NVIDIA NIM microservices Referenced for high-performance inference deployment (7.2)
  • NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails Referenced for safety/compliance enforcement (7.1, Domain 9)

Who should take this exam?

  • 1-2 years of experience in AI/ML roles (study guide notes 2-3 years)
  • Hands-on work with production-level agentic AI projects
  • Strong knowledge of agent development, architecture, orchestration, multi-agent frameworks, and tool/model integration
  • Experience with evaluation, observability, deployment, UI design, reliability guardrails, and rapid prototyping platforms

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