Is the NVIDIA NCA-AIIO Certification Worth It in 2026?

I’ve been exploring the NCA-AIIO (NVIDIA Certified Associate – AI Infrastructure and Operations) and it seems heavily focused on GPU infrastructure, AI cluster deployment, and performance tuning across accelerated data centers.

From what I see, it’s not just theory — you’re expected to understand GPU architecture, CUDA basics, AI workload orchestration, and scaling inference pipelines.

Anyone here who passed NCA-AIIO? Did it help with AI infra roles or MLOps transitions?