LEED AP Exam 2025 Questions and
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GBCI - ✔✔Green business cert inc. Est in 2008, it is a 3rd party organization that
administers LEED credentialing and CE and project reviews and certification. Also
oversees PEER, WELL, SITES, GRESB.
USGBC - ✔✔Member based nonprofit that promotes sust in the built env. They
developed LEED.
When was the first LEED rating system released? - ✔✔2000
How can you become a LEED fellow? - ✔✔Must have held a LEED credential for at
least 8 years
Be an AP
Have at least 10 years of green building experience professionally
Be nominated for displaying skill, tech knowledge, or contributions in teaching,
mentoring and accept the nom
USGBC mission - ✔✔To transform the way buildings and communities are designed,
built and operated, enabling an env and socially responsible, healthy, and prosperous
env that improves quality of life.
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,USGBC vision - ✔✔Buildings and communities will regenerate and sustain the health
and vitality of all life within a generation.
Credential maintenance reqs - ✔✔LEED GA: 15 CE hours (3 LEED specific) within 2
years of earning the credential
LEED AP: 30 hours (6 LEED specific) within 2 yrs
Can be education, project work, authorship, volunteering
LEED APs cannot spend more than half of the 30 hours volunteering!
No maintenance for fellows besides the AP reqs
Knowledge domains - ✔✔The content areas of the LEED AP BD+C exam that reflect the
rating system's credit categories and what an exam candidate needs to know about
each.
- LEED process
- integrative strategies
- all 6 other main credit categories
- project surroundings and public outreach.
Task domains - ✔✔The content areas of the LEED AP BD+C exam that reflect the tasks
necessary to perform the LEED process safely and effectively.
- LEED project and team coordination
- LEED certification process
- analyses required for LEED credits
- advocacy and education for adoption for LEED rating systems
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,Previously developed site - ✔✔a site that, prior to the project, consisted of at least 75%
previously developed land
LEED Impact Categories (in order of weighting) - ✔✔1) Climate Change
2) Human Health
3) Water Resources
4) Biodiversity/ecosystem services
5) Regenerative Material (Natural) Resources)
6) Greener Economy
7) Community/Equity
MPRS - ✔✔Perm location on existing land
Must use reasonable LEED boundaries
Must be at least 1,000 ft gfa
11 steps of LEED work plan - ✔✔1. Initiate discovery
2. Select rating system
3. Check MPRs
4. EST project goals in workshop
5. Define LEED scope and boundary
6. Develop LEED scorecard
7. Continue discovery
8. Continue iterative process
9. Assign LEED roles and responsibilities
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, 10. Develop consistent documentation
11. Quality control and submit
LEED steering committee - ✔✔An integrated group of volunteers and staff who
develop and maintain LEED as a leadership tool, preserving the integrity of the LEED
rating systems, and ensuring the use of the consensus process to evolve LEED in
accordance with the mission, guiding principles, and strategic plan of USGBC
LEED Technical Advisory Group (TAG) - ✔✔Industry experts who recommend
technical solutions to rating system dev and maintenance issues. Help with prereq and
credit improvement and tool development. There is a TAG for each credit area. TAGs
are under direct management of the LEED technical committee.
LEED technical customer service - ✔✔Provides assistance and guidance on the process
of LEED certification
LEED Online Feedback Staff - ✔✔Provides assistance with issues related to LEED
online web functionality, such as broken prerequisite or credit forms
CIRs - ✔✔Credit interpretation requests are submitted then credit interpretation rulings
are given. They are technical guidance from a GBCI reviewer on how a credit or prereq
applies to their project. They can only relate to one MPR, prereq or credit at a time. They
are project specific and do not set a precedent.
LEED interpretations - ✔✔official answers to technical inquiries about implementing
LEED on a project. Precedent setting = ruling can be applied to other projects. They
undergo review by USGBC member-selected volunteer committees. Teams must adhere
to all interpretations before their registration date.
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Answers 100% Pass
GBCI - ✔✔Green business cert inc. Est in 2008, it is a 3rd party organization that
administers LEED credentialing and CE and project reviews and certification. Also
oversees PEER, WELL, SITES, GRESB.
USGBC - ✔✔Member based nonprofit that promotes sust in the built env. They
developed LEED.
When was the first LEED rating system released? - ✔✔2000
How can you become a LEED fellow? - ✔✔Must have held a LEED credential for at
least 8 years
Be an AP
Have at least 10 years of green building experience professionally
Be nominated for displaying skill, tech knowledge, or contributions in teaching,
mentoring and accept the nom
USGBC mission - ✔✔To transform the way buildings and communities are designed,
built and operated, enabling an env and socially responsible, healthy, and prosperous
env that improves quality of life.
COPYRIGHT © 2025 BY GRACE AMELIA, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 1
,USGBC vision - ✔✔Buildings and communities will regenerate and sustain the health
and vitality of all life within a generation.
Credential maintenance reqs - ✔✔LEED GA: 15 CE hours (3 LEED specific) within 2
years of earning the credential
LEED AP: 30 hours (6 LEED specific) within 2 yrs
Can be education, project work, authorship, volunteering
LEED APs cannot spend more than half of the 30 hours volunteering!
No maintenance for fellows besides the AP reqs
Knowledge domains - ✔✔The content areas of the LEED AP BD+C exam that reflect the
rating system's credit categories and what an exam candidate needs to know about
each.
- LEED process
- integrative strategies
- all 6 other main credit categories
- project surroundings and public outreach.
Task domains - ✔✔The content areas of the LEED AP BD+C exam that reflect the tasks
necessary to perform the LEED process safely and effectively.
- LEED project and team coordination
- LEED certification process
- analyses required for LEED credits
- advocacy and education for adoption for LEED rating systems
COPYRIGHT © 2025 BY GRACE AMELIA, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2
,Previously developed site - ✔✔a site that, prior to the project, consisted of at least 75%
previously developed land
LEED Impact Categories (in order of weighting) - ✔✔1) Climate Change
2) Human Health
3) Water Resources
4) Biodiversity/ecosystem services
5) Regenerative Material (Natural) Resources)
6) Greener Economy
7) Community/Equity
MPRS - ✔✔Perm location on existing land
Must use reasonable LEED boundaries
Must be at least 1,000 ft gfa
11 steps of LEED work plan - ✔✔1. Initiate discovery
2. Select rating system
3. Check MPRs
4. EST project goals in workshop
5. Define LEED scope and boundary
6. Develop LEED scorecard
7. Continue discovery
8. Continue iterative process
9. Assign LEED roles and responsibilities
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, 10. Develop consistent documentation
11. Quality control and submit
LEED steering committee - ✔✔An integrated group of volunteers and staff who
develop and maintain LEED as a leadership tool, preserving the integrity of the LEED
rating systems, and ensuring the use of the consensus process to evolve LEED in
accordance with the mission, guiding principles, and strategic plan of USGBC
LEED Technical Advisory Group (TAG) - ✔✔Industry experts who recommend
technical solutions to rating system dev and maintenance issues. Help with prereq and
credit improvement and tool development. There is a TAG for each credit area. TAGs
are under direct management of the LEED technical committee.
LEED technical customer service - ✔✔Provides assistance and guidance on the process
of LEED certification
LEED Online Feedback Staff - ✔✔Provides assistance with issues related to LEED
online web functionality, such as broken prerequisite or credit forms
CIRs - ✔✔Credit interpretation requests are submitted then credit interpretation rulings
are given. They are technical guidance from a GBCI reviewer on how a credit or prereq
applies to their project. They can only relate to one MPR, prereq or credit at a time. They
are project specific and do not set a precedent.
LEED interpretations - ✔✔official answers to technical inquiries about implementing
LEED on a project. Precedent setting = ruling can be applied to other projects. They
undergo review by USGBC member-selected volunteer committees. Teams must adhere
to all interpretations before their registration date.
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