LEED O&M V4 AP Exam 2025/2026 Exam
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Minimum program requirements - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Must be in a permanent
location on existing land
2. Must use reasonable LEED boundaries.
3. Must comply with project size requirements. Minimum of 1000 sq ft
Define the 40/60 rule - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔If rating system is appropriate for less than
40%, the rating system shouldn't be used. If it is appropriate for more than 60%,
the rating system should be used.
Define LEED O+M existing buildings - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Existing buildings that
don't serve k-12 educational, retail, data centers, warehouses and distribution
centers, or hospitality uses.
,Define LEED O+M retail - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Existing buildings used for retail sale
of consumer products. Includes showroom and preparation or storage areas.
Define LEED O+M schools - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Existing buildings made up of core
and ancillary learning spaces on K-12 grounds. Also higher education and non
academic buildings on school campuses.
Define LEED O+M hospitality - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Existing buildings dedicated to
hotels, motels, inns, or other service industry buildings with lodging and with or
without food
Define LEED O+M data centers - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Existing buildings designed and
equipped to meet the needs of high density computing equipment. Only for whole
building data centers.
LEED O+M warehouses and distribution centers - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Existing
buildings used to store goods, manufactured products, merchandise, raw materials,
or personal belongings
How much energy related GHG is transportation responsible for worldwide? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔1/4 and these emissions increased by 17.5% from 1990 to 2010.
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What are the three pathways for getting the Alternative Transportation credit and
how many points can you get? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Max 15 points
1. Transportation survey at least once every 5 years.
2. Alternative transportation rate. Determine the alternative transportation rate
from the survey. If it's 70%, you get all 15 points.
3. Comprehensive alternative transportation program. So a survey and Implement
an alternative transportation program - education, support strategies, and direct
strategies (telecommute, subsidy)
How do you get exemplary performance for the alternative transportation credit? -
🧠 ANSWER ✔✔For option 2, demonstrate 80% reduction from conventional
commuting baseline.
What is the intent of the pre req site management policy? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔To
preserve ecological integrity and encourage environmentally sensitive site
management practices that provide a clean, well-maintained, and safe building
exterior while support high performance building operations and integration into
the surrounding landscape.
What is included in the pre req of site management policy? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Low
emission maintenance equipment, snow and ice removal, cleaning of building
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What is the intent of the site development - protect or restore habitat credit? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔To conserve existing natural areas and restore damaged areas to
provide habitat and promote biodiversity.
What are the two pathways for the site development - protect or restore habitat
credit? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. On site restoration. Have in place native or adapted
vegetation on 20% of the total site area, a minimum of 5,000 square ft.
2. Financial support. Provide financial support equivalent to at least $.05 per sq ft
for the total site area. Money must be provided to a nationally or locally recognized
land trust or conservation org within the same EPA level III region or the projects
state. Land trust must be accredited by the Land Trust Alliance.
What is the intent of the rainwater management credit? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔To
reduce runoff volume and improve water quality by replicating the natural
hydrology and water balance of the site, based on historical conditions and
undeveloped ecosystems in the region.
What are the requirements for the rainwater management credit? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Use low impact development (LID) practices to capture and treat water from
Questions with 100% Correct Answers |
Latest Update
Minimum program requirements - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Must be in a permanent
location on existing land
2. Must use reasonable LEED boundaries.
3. Must comply with project size requirements. Minimum of 1000 sq ft
Define the 40/60 rule - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔If rating system is appropriate for less than
40%, the rating system shouldn't be used. If it is appropriate for more than 60%,
the rating system should be used.
Define LEED O+M existing buildings - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Existing buildings that
don't serve k-12 educational, retail, data centers, warehouses and distribution
centers, or hospitality uses.
,Define LEED O+M retail - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Existing buildings used for retail sale
of consumer products. Includes showroom and preparation or storage areas.
Define LEED O+M schools - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Existing buildings made up of core
and ancillary learning spaces on K-12 grounds. Also higher education and non
academic buildings on school campuses.
Define LEED O+M hospitality - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Existing buildings dedicated to
hotels, motels, inns, or other service industry buildings with lodging and with or
without food
Define LEED O+M data centers - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Existing buildings designed and
equipped to meet the needs of high density computing equipment. Only for whole
building data centers.
LEED O+M warehouses and distribution centers - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Existing
buildings used to store goods, manufactured products, merchandise, raw materials,
or personal belongings
How much energy related GHG is transportation responsible for worldwide? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔1/4 and these emissions increased by 17.5% from 1990 to 2010.
, 3
What are the three pathways for getting the Alternative Transportation credit and
how many points can you get? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Max 15 points
1. Transportation survey at least once every 5 years.
2. Alternative transportation rate. Determine the alternative transportation rate
from the survey. If it's 70%, you get all 15 points.
3. Comprehensive alternative transportation program. So a survey and Implement
an alternative transportation program - education, support strategies, and direct
strategies (telecommute, subsidy)
How do you get exemplary performance for the alternative transportation credit? -
🧠 ANSWER ✔✔For option 2, demonstrate 80% reduction from conventional
commuting baseline.
What is the intent of the pre req site management policy? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔To
preserve ecological integrity and encourage environmentally sensitive site
management practices that provide a clean, well-maintained, and safe building
exterior while support high performance building operations and integration into
the surrounding landscape.
What is included in the pre req of site management policy? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Low
emission maintenance equipment, snow and ice removal, cleaning of building
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, exterior, waste management, species plant management, fertilizer use, irrigation
management
What is the intent of the site development - protect or restore habitat credit? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔To conserve existing natural areas and restore damaged areas to
provide habitat and promote biodiversity.
What are the two pathways for the site development - protect or restore habitat
credit? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. On site restoration. Have in place native or adapted
vegetation on 20% of the total site area, a minimum of 5,000 square ft.
2. Financial support. Provide financial support equivalent to at least $.05 per sq ft
for the total site area. Money must be provided to a nationally or locally recognized
land trust or conservation org within the same EPA level III region or the projects
state. Land trust must be accredited by the Land Trust Alliance.
What is the intent of the rainwater management credit? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔To
reduce runoff volume and improve water quality by replicating the natural
hydrology and water balance of the site, based on historical conditions and
undeveloped ecosystems in the region.
What are the requirements for the rainwater management credit? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Use low impact development (LID) practices to capture and treat water from
