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NVIDIA-Certified Professional: Generative AI LLMs (NCP-GENL)

We do not teach just for the test.Worked examples and real discussion, not a question bank. The exam is then delivered in the classroom — 98% pass it first time.
$2,795MSRP per seat
$1,500with military fundingAF COOL · Army CA · MyCAA
Name your pricethinQflex™ — tell us what you can payIn full, or across twelve monthly payments
Next dates
  • Nov 30–3Burbank, CA
  • Dec 14–17Sterling, VA
  • Jan 4–7Atlanta, GA
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4 daysconsecutive days
Live onlineor in the classroom
ProfessionalArtificial Intelligence
50% labs50% lecture
24 monthsfree retakes

Course overview

Download the course datasheetThe full outline for NVIDIA-Certified Professional: Generative AI LLMs (NCP-GENL), as a PDF.
thinQtank® Learning is offering a unique four-day training camp comprised of four days of instructor-led learning that gives students the knowledge and skills needed to explain LLM architecture, engineer prompts, prepare data, fine-tune and optimize models, evaluate them, accelerate them on GPUs, deploy and monitor them in production and apply safety and compliance practices.

The camp follows the official NVIDIA NCP-GENL exam topics and study guide, with hands-on labs fine-tuning, optimizing and deploying LLMs with NVIDIA tools throughout.

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This course prepares students to take the NVIDIA-Certified Professional: Generative AI LLMs (NCP-GENL) exam.

What's included

13 items
thinQtank® Learning Accelerated Custom Exam Study Guide for NCP-GENL
Hands-on labs fine-tuning, optimizing and deploying LLMs with NVIDIA tools
Custom and focused exam preparation software and materials
Course specific thinQtank® Learning publications to promote a fun and exciting learning
Membership to the thinQtank® Learning University Online
WE DO NOT "TEACH THE TEST" - Students will receive valuable examples and discussion
All courses taught by AI engineers experienced with NVIDIA platforms
Additional hours of remote lab access
Custom video recordings with even more in-depth learning of course topics
Customized practice exam software
Digital courseware
Retake any or all portions of the course as many times as you like in person or live on-line for 24 months
Six months mentoring access to our engineers after completing the course

What you'll be able to do

20 objectives
  • Explain transformer-based LLM architectures and mechanisms
  • Apply prompt engineering: zero/one/few-shot, chain-of-thought and output control
  • Prepare, curate and tokenize data for pretraining, fine-tuning and inference
  • Fine-tune and align LLMs with SFT, RLHF/DPO/GRPO and PEFT (LoRA, adapters, P-tuning)
  • Scale training and inference across multiple GPUs with parallelism and profiling
  • Optimize and deploy LLMs with containerized pipelines, Triton and Kubernetes
  • Evaluate, monitor and maintain LLMs in production
  • Apply guardrails, bias auditing and responsible-AI practices
  • LLM Architecture and Transformers
  • Prompt Engineering
  • Data Preparation and Tokenization
  • Fine-Tuning and Alignment (SFT, RLHF, DPO)
  • Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (LoRA, Adapters, P-Tuning)
  • Evaluation Metrics and Benchmarking
  • GPU Acceleration and Distributed Parallelism
  • Performance Profiling and Memory Optimization
  • Model Optimization for Inference
  • Model Deployment with Triton and Kubernetes
  • Production Monitoring and Reliability
  • Safety, Ethics and Compliance

The exam

70questions maximum
120minutes to complete
  • New professional certification; registration is open
  • Ten topic areas: LLM Architecture (6%); Prompt Engineering (13%); Data Preparation (9%); Model Optimization (17%); Fine-Tuning (13%); Evaluation (7%); GPU Acceleration and Optimization (14%); Model Deployment (9%); Production Monitoring and Reliability (7%); Safety, Ethics, and Compliance (5%)
  • Delivered online with a remote proctor through Certiverse; English only
  • Exam fee: $200 (set by NVIDIA)
  • Valid two years; recertify by retaking the current exam

Who it's for, and what you need first

Target Audience

  • Machine Learning Engineer
  • Software Developer / Engineer
  • Data Scientist
  • Generative AI Specialist / Solutions Architect
  • Service members, veterans and military spouses using AF COOL, Army Credentialing Assistance, MyCAA or VET TEC 2.0

Prerequisites

  • No certification is required
  • Recommended: Two to three years of practical AI/ML experience with large language models
  • NCA-GENL or equivalent generative AI experience is a strong foundation

How it's delivered

Instructor-Led Training
Immersive Live-Online Training
On-Site and Custom Delivery

Dates and locations

21 scheduled
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Mon Nov 30 – Dec 3, 20264 daysBurbank, CA3301 N San Fernando BlvdOpenRequest info
Mon Dec 14 – Dec 17, 20264 daysSterling, VA21481 Ridgetop CirOpenRequest info
Mon Jan 4 – Jan 7, 20274 daysAtlanta, GA431 Marietta St NWOpenRequest info
Mon Jan 25 – Jan 28, 20274 daysBurbank, CA3301 N San Fernando BlvdOpenRequest info
Mon Feb 8 – Feb 11, 20274 daysSterling, VA21481 Ridgetop CirOpenRequest info
Mon Mar 1 – Mar 4, 20274 daysAtlanta, GA431 Marietta St NWOpenRequest info
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Mon Jul 26 – Jul 29, 20274 daysSterling, VA21481 Ridgetop CirOpenRequest info
Mon Aug 16 – Aug 19, 20274 daysAtlanta, GA431 Marietta St NWOpenRequest info
Mon Sep 13 – Sep 16, 20274 daysBurbank, CA3301 N San Fernando BlvdOpenRequest info
Mon Sep 20 – Sep 23, 20274 daysSterling, VA21481 Ridgetop CirOpenRequest info
Mon Oct 18 – Oct 21, 20274 daysAtlanta, GA431 Marietta St NWOpenRequest info
Mon Nov 1 – Nov 4, 20274 daysBurbank, CA3301 N San Fernando BlvdOpenRequest info
Mon Nov 15 – Nov 18, 20274 daysSterling, VA21481 Ridgetop CirOpenRequest info
Mon Dec 6 – Dec 9, 20274 daysAtlanta, GA431 Marietta St NWOpenRequest info
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