NVIDIA Certified Professional - OpenUSD Development
Validates the ability to build, maintain, and optimize 3D content creation pipelines using OpenUSD (Universal Scene Description), including composition arcs with LIVERPS strength ordering for sublayers, references, payloads, variants, inherits, and specializes, data exchange pipeline development for extracting and transforming 3D data, pipeline development for asset management and automation, USD data modeling with schemas and properties, debugging and troubleshooting stage inspection, content aggregation with instancing and modular components, visualization with UsdGeom, UsdShade, and UsdLux, and customizing USD through plugin development. The exam covers eight domains: Composition (23%), Data Exchange (15%), Pipeline Development (14%), Data Modeling (13%), Debugging and Troubleshooting (11%), Content Aggregation (10%), Visualization (8%), and Customizing USD (6%). Format: 60-70 multiple-choice questions, 120 minutes, proctored online.
Exam domains
- Composition23%
Assembling stages with OpenUSD composition arcs — sublayers, references, payloads, variantSets, inherits, specializes — and reasoning about LIVRPS strength ordering, list-editing, edit targets, and Pcp value resolution.
- Data Exchange15%
Bringing DCC data (Maya, Houdini, Blender, glTF, FBX, Alembic) in and out of OpenUSD via the NVIDIA OpenUSD Exchange SDK, Sdf FileFormat plugins, and Omniverse Connectors, including USDZ packaging and unit/up-axis conventions.
- Pipeline Development14%
Building production USD pipelines in Python/C++ on Sdf, Usd, UsdGeom, and UsdShade — asset structure (component/assembly), per-discipline layer stacks, Asset Resolver (Ar) plugins, and Kit SDK / Omniverse Kit apps.
- Data Modeling13%
Structuring scenes with prims, attributes, relationships, metadata, and Kind-based model hierarchy across UsdGeom, UsdShade, UsdLux, UsdSkel, and UsdPhysics, plus typed (IsA) vs applied (API) schemas, xformOps, and purpose.
Sources
Questions are grounded in 50 references from official and authoritative materials.