✦ NVIDIA-Certified Associate · NCA-GENL
Three weeks of live, hands-on prep for the NVIDIA-Certified Associate: Generative AI and LLMs. A rapid pass through the whole blueprint, heaviest domains first.
✦ Your instructor
Mike Wheeler is an AI and Salesforce trainer and O’Reilly author. He has taught well over 500,000 global learners on major platforms such as edX, LinkedIn Learning, Pearson, and Udemy, and he built the first generative AI course on edX. He teaches for non-coders, working backward from your career goals.
Non-coders and technical professionals targeting the NVIDIA NCA-GENL credential who want the essentials, fast, without wading through everything alone.
The NCA-GENL is one of the first vendor credentials built specifically around generative AI and large language models. It rewards breadth and clear understanding rather than deep coding. We cover the whole blueprint and spend your hours where the exam does.
✦ The curriculum & schedule
Six live sessions over three weeks: three teaching sessions plus three optional office hours. All times Central. Can’t make one live? Every session is recorded.
RAG, embeddings, prompt engineering, and the machine-learning fundamentals that anchor the largest slice of the exam.
Job-market intel and open Q&A, shared across every Velza Academy cohort.
Metrics, visualization, confounders, A/B testing, and interpreting results. The exam’s analytical core.
Job-market intel and open Q&A, shared across every Velza Academy cohort.
Building RAG, chatbot, and summarizer patterns plus monitoring, then ethics, privacy, and bias, closing with a practice clinic.
Job-market intel and open Q&A, shared across every Velza Academy cohort.
RAG, embeddings, prompt engineering, and the machine-learning fundamentals that anchor the largest slice of the exam.
Job-market intel and open Q&A, shared across every Velza Academy cohort.
Metrics, visualization, confounders, A/B testing, and interpreting results. The exam’s analytical core.
Job-market intel and open Q&A, shared across every Velza Academy cohort.
Building RAG, chatbot, and summarizer patterns plus monitoring, then ethics, privacy, and bias, closing with a practice clinic.
Job-market intel and open Q&A, shared across every Velza Academy cohort.
RAG, embeddings, prompt engineering, and the machine-learning fundamentals that anchor the largest slice of the exam.
Job-market intel and open Q&A, shared across every Velza Academy cohort.
Metrics, visualization, confounders, A/B testing, and interpreting results. The exam’s analytical core.
Job-market intel and open Q&A, shared across every Velza Academy cohort.
Building RAG, chatbot, and summarizer patterns plus monitoring, then ethics, privacy, and bias, closing with a practice clinic.
Job-market intel and open Q&A, shared across every Velza Academy cohort.
✦ What you’ll walk away with
Generative-AI skills are showing up in more job postings every month, and this is one of the first credentials that proves them.
There is a well-documented shortage of AI talent. A new generation of AI certifications is emerging to prove those skills, and the NVIDIA NCA-GENL is one leading the pack.
✦ Exam coverage
Every domain in the official blueprint, weighted so you spend time where the exam does.
| Core Machine Learning & AI Knowledge | 30% |
| Software Development | 24% |
| Experimentation | 22% |
| Data Analysis & Visualization | 14% |
| Trustworthy AI | 10% |
✦ What’s included
Three teaching sessions plus three optional office hours, live over three weeks. Mondays at 2-3 PM Central.
Every session is recorded, and you keep access to the replays for a full year, so you can rewatch any time before your exam.
A real hands-on exercise each week, so you build working intuition rather than just notes.
✦ Questions, answered
Yes. The NCA-GENL rewards clear understanding of concepts more than coding ability. We explain the machine-learning foundations in plain language and build up from there.
The NVIDIA-Certified Associate: Generative AI and LLMs (NCA-GENL) is an entry-level credential covering core machine learning and AI knowledge, software development patterns, experimentation, data analysis and visualization, and trustworthy AI.
No. Nothing in this cohort requires GPU access. The exam tests understanding of concepts and patterns, not hands-on cluster work.
No. This cohort is exam prep. You register and pay for the exam separately through NVIDIA.
Every session is recorded and shared, and you keep access to the replays for a full year, so you can watch or rewatch any of them on your own schedule. The optional Friday office hours are recorded too.
Self-study stalls. A live cohort gives you a fixed three-week pace, the chance to ask questions in real time, weekly hands-on work, and optional office hours. You actually finish.
You can request a full refund within 24 hours of the start of the first live session.