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1-For which of the following would a LEED Green Associate use the Green Building Information Gateway
(GBIG)? - Answer✔✔-D. Exploring and comparing the green dimensions of the built environment.
2-What factor impacts the cost of earning LEED-certification? - Answer✔✔-D. Square footage of the
building.
3-A university client asks about certifying multiple buildings. Which of the following is an appropriate
response? - Answer✔✔-B. The Campus Program can be used for projects not necessarily uniform in
design or operations but located on a single campus location.
4-Who is responsible for ensuring the use of the consensus process to evolve LEED in accordance with
the mission, guiding principles, and strategic plan of USGBC? - Answer✔✔-C. LEED Steering Committee.
5-What is the International Green Construction Code (IgCC) intended to replace? - Answer✔✔-D.
Traditional building codes.
6-Which of the following is NOT a component of the impact category Enhance Social Equity,
Environmental Justice, Community Health and Quality of Life? - Answer✔✔-E. Support Occupant
Comfort and Well-Being.
7-When there are two or more rating systems that might be applicable to a project, how should the
project team decide which rating system to use? - Answer✔✔-A. Use the 40/60 rule.
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8-A multi-family building that is 3 stories tall would be certified under what rating system? - Answer✔✔-
D. LEED BD+C: Homes.
9-A project that earns 65 points would earn what level of certification? - Answer✔✔-A. Gold.
10-What LEED rating system helps create better, more sustainable, well-connected neighborhoods? -
Answer✔✔-B. LEED ND.
11-Which of the following defines the types of buildings, spaces, and neighborhoods that the LEED rating
system is designed to evaluate? - Answer✔✔-D. Minimum Program Requirements.
12-Promoting the triple bottom line is a part of USGBC's: - Answer✔✔-D. Guiding principles.
13-The area of a project site that is used by the building structure, defined by the perimeter of the
building plan is the: - Answer✔✔-B. Building footprint.
14-What is true about a project that earns 38 points towards certification? - Answer✔✔-B. The project
would not earn certification.
15-What LEED credit category rewards projects within relatively dense areas, near diverse uses, with
access to a variety of transportation options, or on sites with development constraints? - Answer✔✔-B.
Location and Transportation.
16-Which of the following determines the level of certification a project earns? - Answer✔✔-C. The
number of points a project earns.
17-What LEED developments address specific space types and international requirements? - Answer✔✔-
C. LEED Rating System adaptations.
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18-What is the point range for a project to earn LEED Gold? - Answer✔✔-A. 60-79.
19-What statement is true regarding the LEED Scorecard? - Answer✔✔-C. The LEED Scorecard is
organized by LEED category.
20-Where should a project team go for updates and errata for the LEED BD+C: New Construction rating
system? - Answer✔✔-C. usgbc.org.
21-What are the basic types of LEED improvements that are updated through revisions on a regular
development cycle? - Answer✔✔-A. Errata and Addenda.
B. Next version of LEED.
C. Adaptations.
22-Exemplary performance and pilot credits are awarded in what LEED category? - Answer✔✔-D.
Innovation.
23-Which of the following are mandatory for LEED certification? - Answer✔✔-A. Meeting the Minimum
Program Requirements.
E. Meeting all prerequisites.
24-What is the minimum certification level in LEED? - Answer✔✔-D. Certified.
25-Which of the following statements regarding LEED Interpretations is NOT true? - Answer✔✔-B. LEED
interpretations are used to add new requirements to the LEED Rating System.
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LEED Test Questions and Answers |100%
Pass
1-For which of the following would a LEED Green Associate use the Green Building Information Gateway
(GBIG)? - Answer✔✔-D. Exploring and comparing the green dimensions of the built environment.
2-What factor impacts the cost of earning LEED-certification? - Answer✔✔-D. Square footage of the
building.
3-A university client asks about certifying multiple buildings. Which of the following is an appropriate
response? - Answer✔✔-B. The Campus Program can be used for projects not necessarily uniform in
design or operations but located on a single campus location.
4-Who is responsible for ensuring the use of the consensus process to evolve LEED in accordance with
the mission, guiding principles, and strategic plan of USGBC? - Answer✔✔-C. LEED Steering Committee.
5-What is the International Green Construction Code (IgCC) intended to replace? - Answer✔✔-D.
Traditional building codes.
6-Which of the following is NOT a component of the impact category Enhance Social Equity,
Environmental Justice, Community Health and Quality of Life? - Answer✔✔-E. Support Occupant
Comfort and Well-Being.
7-When there are two or more rating systems that might be applicable to a project, how should the
project team decide which rating system to use? - Answer✔✔-A. Use the 40/60 rule.
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8-A multi-family building that is 3 stories tall would be certified under what rating system? - Answer✔✔-
D. LEED BD+C: Homes.
9-A project that earns 65 points would earn what level of certification? - Answer✔✔-A. Gold.
10-What LEED rating system helps create better, more sustainable, well-connected neighborhoods? -
Answer✔✔-B. LEED ND.
11-Which of the following defines the types of buildings, spaces, and neighborhoods that the LEED rating
system is designed to evaluate? - Answer✔✔-D. Minimum Program Requirements.
12-Promoting the triple bottom line is a part of USGBC's: - Answer✔✔-D. Guiding principles.
13-The area of a project site that is used by the building structure, defined by the perimeter of the
building plan is the: - Answer✔✔-B. Building footprint.
14-What is true about a project that earns 38 points towards certification? - Answer✔✔-B. The project
would not earn certification.
15-What LEED credit category rewards projects within relatively dense areas, near diverse uses, with
access to a variety of transportation options, or on sites with development constraints? - Answer✔✔-B.
Location and Transportation.
16-Which of the following determines the level of certification a project earns? - Answer✔✔-C. The
number of points a project earns.
17-What LEED developments address specific space types and international requirements? - Answer✔✔-
C. LEED Rating System adaptations.
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18-What is the point range for a project to earn LEED Gold? - Answer✔✔-A. 60-79.
19-What statement is true regarding the LEED Scorecard? - Answer✔✔-C. The LEED Scorecard is
organized by LEED category.
20-Where should a project team go for updates and errata for the LEED BD+C: New Construction rating
system? - Answer✔✔-C. usgbc.org.
21-What are the basic types of LEED improvements that are updated through revisions on a regular
development cycle? - Answer✔✔-A. Errata and Addenda.
B. Next version of LEED.
C. Adaptations.
22-Exemplary performance and pilot credits are awarded in what LEED category? - Answer✔✔-D.
Innovation.
23-Which of the following are mandatory for LEED certification? - Answer✔✔-A. Meeting the Minimum
Program Requirements.
E. Meeting all prerequisites.
24-What is the minimum certification level in LEED? - Answer✔✔-D. Certified.
25-Which of the following statements regarding LEED Interpretations is NOT true? - Answer✔✔-B. LEED
interpretations are used to add new requirements to the LEED Rating System.
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