LEED Practice Exam (100 Questions) – Study Guide, Green Building
Certification Prep & Review
a. Materials and Resources
b. Innovation
c. Sustainable Sites
d. Water Efficiency - ANS ✔✔1. Exemplary Performance credits can be achieved in which LEED
rating system category?
2. The term "stakeholder" encompasses more than just decision makers and includes: - ANS
✔✔a. Those who must live with the decisions and those who must carry them out.
b. Everyone who has a financial stake in the building.
c. Everyone who is on the company payroll.
d. Those members of the community who are not affiliated with the company but are affected
by its
decisions.
a. Reverse Contribution to Global Climate Change
b. Protect, Enhance, and Restore Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
c. Protect and Restore Water Resources
d. Enhance Individual Human Health and Well-Being - ANS ✔✔3. What is the most critical
impact category out of the seven, meaning the largest environmental impact, as determined by
USGBC?
a. Building envelope
b. Project site boundary
c. Development footprint
,d. Project to site ratio - ANS ✔✔4. The total land area of a project site covered by buildings,
streets, parking areas, and other typically
impermeable surfaces constructed as part of the project is called the:
a. Reduce heat island effect
b. Eliminate light pollution
c. Improve ground water quality
d. Protect open space
e. Reduce rainwater runoff - ANS ✔✔5. Pervious paving areas support which two Sustainable
Sites (SS) goals? (select two)
a. 0.25 gpf
b. 0.6 gpf
c. 1.6 gpf
d. 1.6 gpm - ANS ✔✔6. The Energy Policy Act of 1992 (EPAct 1992) establishes which flush rate
as the baseline water consumption for water closets?
A charrette is: - ANS ✔✔7. a. Generally held at the end of the project
b. The process of bringing in the design team only for focused conversations
c. The process brings together the project team with stakeholders and outside experts for
creative
thinking and collaboration
d. A gathering of LEED APs for a general discussion on sustainability
a. Systems are always simple and self-contained
b. Most systems are actually systems within systems
c. Unchecked, positive feedback loops can create chaos in a system
, d. Both the individual elements of the system and their relationships to each other as a whole -
ANS ✔✔8. When applying systems thinking to designing building and communities, we must
understand:
ASHRAE 55 relates to: - ANS ✔✔9. a. Minimum energy performance
b. Mechanically ventilated spaces
c. Thermal comfort of indoor occupants
d. Naturally ventilated spaces
a. Provide all employees with a free hybrid car after one year of employment.
b. Develop a sustainable materials policy outlining the goals, thresholds, and procedures for
procurement of ongoing consumables and durable goods.
c. Institute a green signage policy to put up signs reminding employees to turn off lights and
computers, compost their food waste, and to recycle glass, aluminum, and paper.
d. Provide employees incentives such as vacation hours for purchasing products with recycled
content and low VOCs.
e. Specify green custodial products that meet Green Seal, Environmental Choice or EPA
standards to protect indoor environmental quality. - ANS ✔✔10. Two strategies to promote
sustainable purchasing during design and operations are: (select two)
a. ASHRAE 90.1
b. HERS
c. Energy Star Portfolio Manager
d. Demand response - ANS ✔✔11. A program that allows utilities to call on buildings to
decrease their electricity use during peak times, reducing the strain on the grid and the need to
operate more power plants, thus potentially avoiding the costs of constructing
new plants is called:
Certification Prep & Review
a. Materials and Resources
b. Innovation
c. Sustainable Sites
d. Water Efficiency - ANS ✔✔1. Exemplary Performance credits can be achieved in which LEED
rating system category?
2. The term "stakeholder" encompasses more than just decision makers and includes: - ANS
✔✔a. Those who must live with the decisions and those who must carry them out.
b. Everyone who has a financial stake in the building.
c. Everyone who is on the company payroll.
d. Those members of the community who are not affiliated with the company but are affected
by its
decisions.
a. Reverse Contribution to Global Climate Change
b. Protect, Enhance, and Restore Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
c. Protect and Restore Water Resources
d. Enhance Individual Human Health and Well-Being - ANS ✔✔3. What is the most critical
impact category out of the seven, meaning the largest environmental impact, as determined by
USGBC?
a. Building envelope
b. Project site boundary
c. Development footprint
,d. Project to site ratio - ANS ✔✔4. The total land area of a project site covered by buildings,
streets, parking areas, and other typically
impermeable surfaces constructed as part of the project is called the:
a. Reduce heat island effect
b. Eliminate light pollution
c. Improve ground water quality
d. Protect open space
e. Reduce rainwater runoff - ANS ✔✔5. Pervious paving areas support which two Sustainable
Sites (SS) goals? (select two)
a. 0.25 gpf
b. 0.6 gpf
c. 1.6 gpf
d. 1.6 gpm - ANS ✔✔6. The Energy Policy Act of 1992 (EPAct 1992) establishes which flush rate
as the baseline water consumption for water closets?
A charrette is: - ANS ✔✔7. a. Generally held at the end of the project
b. The process of bringing in the design team only for focused conversations
c. The process brings together the project team with stakeholders and outside experts for
creative
thinking and collaboration
d. A gathering of LEED APs for a general discussion on sustainability
a. Systems are always simple and self-contained
b. Most systems are actually systems within systems
c. Unchecked, positive feedback loops can create chaos in a system
, d. Both the individual elements of the system and their relationships to each other as a whole -
ANS ✔✔8. When applying systems thinking to designing building and communities, we must
understand:
ASHRAE 55 relates to: - ANS ✔✔9. a. Minimum energy performance
b. Mechanically ventilated spaces
c. Thermal comfort of indoor occupants
d. Naturally ventilated spaces
a. Provide all employees with a free hybrid car after one year of employment.
b. Develop a sustainable materials policy outlining the goals, thresholds, and procedures for
procurement of ongoing consumables and durable goods.
c. Institute a green signage policy to put up signs reminding employees to turn off lights and
computers, compost their food waste, and to recycle glass, aluminum, and paper.
d. Provide employees incentives such as vacation hours for purchasing products with recycled
content and low VOCs.
e. Specify green custodial products that meet Green Seal, Environmental Choice or EPA
standards to protect indoor environmental quality. - ANS ✔✔10. Two strategies to promote
sustainable purchasing during design and operations are: (select two)
a. ASHRAE 90.1
b. HERS
c. Energy Star Portfolio Manager
d. Demand response - ANS ✔✔11. A program that allows utilities to call on buildings to
decrease their electricity use during peak times, reducing the strain on the grid and the need to
operate more power plants, thus potentially avoiding the costs of constructing
new plants is called:
