If you fail the LEED Green Associate exam three times during your application period, you will have used all of your allotted exam attempts. That means that you will have to wait until three months from the end of your application period (one year from your application approval date) to apply for any LEED Professional Exam.

If you are an active LEED Green Associate (meaning that you are maintaining your credential), you are only required to take the second part of the LEED AP exam (the LEED AP specialty exam) to become a LEED AP. If you successfully complete any of the LEED AP specialty exams during an active LEED Green Associate reporting period, the LEED Green Associate credential will expire and be replaced by the LEED AP with specialty credential.

No. The LEED AP with specialty credential supersedes the LEED Green Associate credential. If you earn the LEED AP with specialty after the LEED Green Associate, you should no longer use the LEED Green Associate designation as it will expire and be replaced by the LEED AP with specialty.

If you have additional questions about LEED Professional credentials, please view the LEED Green Associate candidate handbook, a resource for GBCI and Prometric policies and procedures throughout the credentialing process, and the Glossary,a dictionary of useful GBCI terms and definitions. If you have any questions not answered on the GBCI website or in the handbooks, contact GBCI credentialing staff.