NVIDIA-Certified Professional: OpenUSD Development (NCP-OUSD) - NCP-OUSD Exam Questions

QUESTION NO: 1
What is the correct prim type in UsdShade for sharing reusable portions of shading networks, allowing for parameterization?

QUESTION NO: 2
Which of the following are valid reasons for choosing to use or develop a standalone converter instead of an importer/exporter for a digital content creation (DCC) application? Choose two.

QUESTION NO: 3
Which of these data is lost when flattening a stage?

QUESTION NO: 4
Review the following code for creating 1000 sphere instances. When this code is executed, why will the authored prims not yield any instancing efficiencies?
for i in range(1000):
xform = UsdGeom.Xform.Define(stage, f"/test_{i}")
sphere_path = xform.GetPath().AppendPath("sphere")
UsdGeom.Sphere.Define(stage, sphere_path)
xform.GetPrim().SetInstanceable(True)
xform.AddTranslateOp().Set((i * 2, 0, 0))

QUESTION NO: 5
In OpenUSD, a composed stage aggregates opinions from multiple sublayers. Why might an opinion in one layer not take effect in the final composed stage?

QUESTION NO: 6
Consider the following prim hierarchies. Each prim hierarchy is represented by nested unordered lists and each list item represents a prim with the following format: PRIM_NAME (KIND). No text within the parentheses means that the kind is unset for that prim. Only evaluate model kind hierarchy correctness and the structural choices. Which prim hierarchies represent valid model kind hierarchies? Choose three.

QUESTION NO: 7
If you have a Usd.Prim object named my_prim and you want to specifically retrieve an attribute named
"size", which method would you typically use?

QUESTION NO: 8
Which of the following are true for SdfChangeBlocks? Choose two.