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LEED Practice EXAM (100 questions)a. Materials and Resources
b. Innovation
c. Sustainable Sites
d. Water Efficiency - correct answer ✔✔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: - correct answer
✔✔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 - correct answer ✔✔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 - correct answer ✔✔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 - correct answer ✔✔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 - correct answer ✔✔6. The Energy Policy Act of 1992 (EPAct 1992) establishes which flush
rate as the baseline water consumption for water closets?
A charrette is: - correct answer ✔✔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 - correct
answer ✔✔8. When applying systems thinking to designing building and communities, we must
understand:
ASHRAE 55 relates to: - correct answer ✔✔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. - correct answer ✔✔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 - correct answer ✔✔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:
a. Integrative water management
b. Rain gardening
c. Xeriscaping
d. Greenscaping - correct answer ✔✔12. The use of drought-tolerant native or adapted plants along with
rocks, bark mulch, and other landscape elements is called:
Pooled parking is when: - correct answer ✔✔13. a. Parking spaces are shared among two or more
buildings.
b. Parking spaces are reserved for carpoolers only.
c. Pools of parking spots are reserved in proximity to the building depending on the arrival time of
employees.
d. Occupants pool together to rent premium parking spots.
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