NVIDIA Certified Professional - AI Operations (NCP-AIO) Flashcards¶
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Exam logistics¶
How long is the NVIDIA Certified Professional - AI Operations (NCP-AIO) exam?
120 minutes
How many questions are on the NVIDIA Certified Professional - AI Operations (NCP-AIO) exam?
60-70 questions
What is the passing score for NVIDIA Certified Professional - AI Operations (NCP-AIO)?
Not officially published
What does the NVIDIA Certified Professional - AI Operations (NCP-AIO) exam cost?
$200 USD
How long is NVIDIA Certified Professional - AI Operations (NCP-AIO) valid for?
2 years
Model deployment¶
Model Repository (model deployment)
Storage location for model artifacts and configs
Scheduler (model deployment)
Manages request queuing and batching
Backend (model deployment)
Framework-specific execution engines
Metrics (model deployment)
Prometheus-compatible performance metrics
GPU utilization (model deployment)
Scale up when GPUs are saturated
Request queue depth (model deployment)
Scale up when requests are waiting
Latency P95 (model deployment)
Scale up when latency exceeds target
Throughput (model deployment)
Scale to maintain target requests/second
Incident response¶
Single-Bit Errors (SBE) (incident response)
Correctable, data is repaired automatically
Double-Bit Errors (DBE) (incident response)
Uncorrectable, causes computation failure
Transient error (incident response)
Reset GPU (nvidia-smi -r -i ), monitor
Driver issue (incident response)
Update or rollback driver version
ECC errors (incident response)
Retire pages, schedule replacement if persistent
Hardware failure (incident response)
Replace GPU or node
Thermal (incident response)
Fix cooling, reduce workload until repaired
Software (incident response)
Fix workload configuration, update libraries