AEE Certified Energy Auditor (CEA) Practice Exams FREE Sample Exam

In the executive summary of a municipal building audit report, what should appear first?

Full equipment inventories by room

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Detailed logger graphs for every circuit

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Total identified savings, total implementation cost, overall payback, and the top priority recommendations

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Copies of all utility bills

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A client asks the auditor to audit a building the auditor’s firm also bid to retrofit. The auditor’s planning response should be:

Hide the relationship to win both jobs

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Inflate savings to favor the firm's retrofit bid

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Disclose the potential conflict and agree on safeguards so the audit remains independent

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Refuse to discuss it unless the client asks twice

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An auditor benchmarking a newly acquired office has only eight months of bills, spanning winter through summer but missing the autumn shoulder season. What is the defensible treatment of a benchmark built from this record?

Present it as provisional, disclose the incomplete year, and avoid simple annualization without accounting for the missing season's loads.

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Multiply the eight-month total by 1.5 and report the result as a verified annual EUI.

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Fill the missing months with the peer median EUI for the building type.

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Report the eight-month total as if it were a full year to keep the schedule.

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A plant billed on kVA demand at $11/kVA-month improves power factor so billed demand falls from 625 kVA to 520 kVA each month, with kW unchanged. What is the annual demand saving?

$1,155

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$6,875

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$13,860

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$68,750

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An audit reports expected savings of 50,000 kWh ± 15%. What is the auditor communicating?

Savings are guaranteed to be exactly 50,000 kWh

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The client owes payment on 57,500 kWh regardless of results

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The central estimate is 50,000 kWh, with actual results reasonably expected within about 42,500–57,500 kWh

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The measure should be installed 15% more times

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A gas meter pulse output is available at a plant. How can the auditor use it in the measurement plan?

Pulses indicate gas pressure, not consumption

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Log pulses over time to obtain gas consumption profiles that align with production and boiler operation, rather than relying only on monthly bills

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Pulse outputs are only for the utility's billing system

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Logging pulses voids the meter's accuracy

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A client proposes paying for Phase 2 entirely from Phase 1’s projected savings. What caution do you document?

Savings are cash that can be spent twice if phases overlap

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Projected savings are estimates until measured, and the same dollars may already be committed to loan payments or operations, so the funding plan should be verified against realized, uncommitted savings

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Phase 2 must start before Phase 1 to use its savings

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No caution is needed because projections are guarantees

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A measure’s cash flows produce an NPV of +$4,200 at an 8% discount rate and -$1,800 at a 12% discount rate. What can the auditor state about its IRR?

It lies between 8% and 12%, where NPV crosses zero

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It is exactly 12%, the higher rate tested

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It cannot be bracketed from NPV results

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It is below 8%, because NPV falls as the rate rises

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In a school with two equal boilers, the auditor sees both firing at low rate all winter instead of one carrying the load. Which control improvement should be recommended?

Lead-lag sequencing that loads one boiler efficiently before bringing on the second, with automatic duty rotation

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Locking both boilers to fire together so they wear at the same rate

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Raising the supply temperature so both boilers cycle less often

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Disabling the outdoor-air damper so the boilers run longer each cycle

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You inspect a furnace in a small office and smell combustion products in the supply air with a cracked heat exchanger suspected. As an auditor your immediate action is to do what?

Recommend a larger furnace

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Ignore it as outside audit scope

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Note it as a safety hazard for immediate professional follow-up

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Increase ventilation only

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A system uses 600,000 kWh per year for compressed air. The auditor verifies a sustainable 14 psi pressure reduction. Using 1% saving per 2 psi, what annual energy saving is expected?

84,000 kWh, because 14 psi gives 14% by direct proportion to psi.

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14,000 kWh, because each psi is worth 1,000 kWh regardless of system size.

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42,000 kWh, because 14 psi gives 7% and 7% of 600,000 kWh equals 42,000 kWh.

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600,000 kWh, because lowering pressure eliminates the need for compression.

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How does the auditor estimate annual motor energy when only load fraction, rated hp, efficiency at that load and hours are known?

Rated hp x hours, ignoring efficiency and load

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Input kW = load fraction x rated hp x 0.746 / efficiency at that load, multiplied by hours

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Efficiency x hours only

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Load fraction x voltage x service factor

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