Associate Sustainability Exam

CSWA (Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate) Sustainability Exam (Latest Update 2025 / 2026) Questions & Answers | Grade A | 100% Correct (Verified Solutions)

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Transportation is not typically given as a lifecycle stage, since transportation legs actually occur between each of the lifecycle stages, but it's an important consideration to account for in the product's lifecycle impacts.

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True

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Weighting is more of a political (social, cultural) than a scientific process -- giving, say, more weight to the global warming indicator than to acidification is a values-based decision. Stakeholders may differ significantly on their views about the importance of impacts, as shown in the chart below.

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Once you've determined what impacts you want to focus on and how far up and down the product's lifecycle you want to assess, the final decision is how accurately you need to measure your selected impacts across your chosen lifecycle stages. Once you've determined your choice of metrics, you'll be able to identify the types of impact assessment tools and techniques that will be most useful.

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Metrics

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Most metrics fall into one of four categories:

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· Comments

· Checkmarks

· Scores

· Measurements

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Weighted "single score" assessments

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Assessments have the advantage of generating one, easy-to-communicate impact number.

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The advantage of variable weighting approaches

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is that they can be customized to fit an organizations goals and values

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Data-driven environmental impact measurements have traditionally been too slow or expensive to acquire.

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True

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For instance, intuition alone will tell you that a lighter version of a product would save on transportation costs or that a more energy-efficient product would have less of an environmental impact. Unfortunately, there are plenty of counter-intuitive trade-offs and costs unknown to the average designer.

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True

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Why you shouldn't listen to public opinions?

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PVC has a terrible reputation, even though analysis will show that in certain applications it is the more environmentally responsible choice.

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. Cotton's environmental footprint has gotten much better over the years, but the "natural" option might not turn out to be the best sustainable option, despite the hype.

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Even thought it's marketed as natural and uses 25% of insecticides and 10% of pesticides.

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