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NCP-AAI Mastery — Agentic AI Engineering: From Zero to NVIDIA-Certified Professional

Build a production-grade multi-agent system, module by module, and walk into the NCP-AAI exam ready.

14 modules Intermediate Python Free, no paywall No GPU required
Start with Module 1 Companion labs ↗

About this course

This is a free, 14-module course for Python developers who use LLM APIs but have never built an agent. Across the series you build Scout, a multi-agent research assistant — from your first NVIDIA NIM call to a deployed, monitored, guarded production API — while covering all 10 domains of the NVIDIA-Certified Professional: Agentic AI LLMs (NCP-AAI) exam blueprint.

All lab code lives in the companion repo — tested, version-pinned, runnable on a laptop with free hosted NVIDIA NIM endpoints. No GPU required.

Syllabus

  1. 01 What Is Agentic AI? From LLM Calls to Autonomous Agents (NCP-AAI Module 1) 21 min read Read
  2. 02 Build Your First AI Agent: Tool Calling from Scratch to LangGraph (NCP-AAI Module 2) 21 min read Read
  3. 03 Agent Architecture: Patterns, Trade-offs, and When Not to Build an Agent (NCP-AAI Module 3) 20 min read Read
  4. 04 Cognition: How Agents Plan, Reason, and Self-Correct (NCP-AAI Module 4) 21 min read Read
  5. 05 Agent Memory: State, Persistence, and Long-Term Recall (NCP-AAI Module 5) 22 min read Read
  6. 06 Agentic RAG: Build a Citation-Grounded Knowledge Pipeline with NVIDIA NIM (NCP-AAI Module 6) 23 min read Read
  7. 07 Build a Multi-Agent System with LangGraph: Supervisors, Swarms, and Handoffs (NCP-AAI Module 7) 20 min read Read
  8. 08 Evaluating AI Agents: Metrics, LLM-as-Judge, and Tuning (NCP-AAI Module 8) 22 min read Read
  9. 09 Guardrails and Human Oversight: Safe Agents by Design (NCP-AAI Module 9) 23 min read Read
  10. 10 Deploying AI Agents: From Notebook to Production API (NCP-AAI Module 10) 22 min read Read
  11. 11 Running Agents in Production: Observability, Cost, and Maintenance (NCP-AAI Module 11) 21 min read Read
  12. 12 The NVIDIA Agentic Stack: NIM, NeMo, and Nemotron in Practice (NCP-AAI Module 12) 20 min read Read
  13. 13 Capstone: Ship Scout, a Production-Grade Research Assistant (NCP-AAI Module 13) 24 min read Read
  14. 14 The NCP-AAI Exam: Strategy, Mock Exam, and My Debrief (NCP-AAI Module 14) 39 min read Read

Also in this course: Glossary