IFMA Exam 2025 CFM Dumps Updated Questions UPDATED Aug-2025 [Q107-Q130]

Q107. During a large real estate project, what are the expenses of planning, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and disposition of a structure over time known as?

Life-cycle costing.

Investment analysis.

Time value of money.

Project classification.

Q108. In addition to vision, incentives, action plan, and resources, what is required for the process of change management to be effective?

Directives

Experience

Skills

Q109. Part of your goals is to develop a succession plan for key positions within your operation, including yourself.
What is most helpful in reaching this goal?

Conduct staff interviews to see who wants to be promoted.

Conduct a review of staff goals and objectives.

Conduct a skills gap analysis of current staff and incorporate the results into training goals.

Q110. A facility manager wants to implement a centralized work request center for facility requests. After market research, the facility manager finds several different ways to prioritize requests. Which criteria should be used to prioritize work requests?

Job classification, total cost, complexity.

Criticality, safety, complexity.

Criticality, total cost, completion time.

Criticality, material cost, complexity.

Q111. A new department manager is not clear on the services provided by the facility management department and is often negative about facility management while at management meetings. How should a facility manager address the customer’s expectations?

Request that the manager refrain from complaints at this meeting as it is not the appropriate venue.

Request that the other managers have a discussion with him about office protocol.

Request that he read his service level agreement.

Review the customer service level agreement to determine a mutually agreed performance standard.

Q112. When a facility manager initiates an office relocation project, which item is completed first?

Develop the project program.

Secure the budget.

Develop the project charter.

Secure the new lease.

Q113. What is the most common method to accelerate the completion of a project?

Outsourcing project work

Reducing scope

Adding resources

Scheduling overtime

Q114. What level of damage and risk is anticipated with the current building code requirements for most buildings?

Buildings will have minor damage and occupants can continue to occupy the building after an event.

Buildings will have very little or no damage with no impact on the occupancy and operations.

Buildings will have damage but will not collapse and allow time for occupants to leave the building.

Q115. A facility manager has developed a new health and safety program. What should be the next step?

Post the program on the internal website for employees to read and take action.

Put a notice on the bulletin board explaining the health and safety program.

Send out an email announcing the new health and safety program.

Develop a formal communication plan outlining the various tools used to communicate to the staff.

Q116. An organization is considering relocating from leased building #1 into leased building #2. Leased building #1 is 55,000 sq. ft. costing $1,100,000 annually. Leased building #2 is 50,000 sq. ft. costing $1,100,000 annually.
Building #1 can house 500 people and building #2 can house 580 people. The company’s benchmark is
$2,000.00 per person per year for leased space. What is the MOST important reason to know what the company’s benchmarks are?

It allows other organizations to measure against your results.

It structures your recommendations in a method your managers require.

It provides a quantitative measure to support your recommendations and decisions.

It simplifies the budgeting process.

Q117. What is the greatest benefit to implementing an Integrated Work Management System (IWMS)?

It will make the board members happy.

The building floor plans will all be in one place.

It will improve customer service.

The building systems will no longer need to be monitored.

Q118. To satisfy the needs of one of its largest customers, your company is opening a new facility about 1240 miles
/2000 kilometers away from the corporate offices. Initially, the new operation will only support one customer.
However, the company expects more customers will be added in the next three to five years. The plan is that the corporate office will support operations in the new facility. What is the best way to manage the facility requirements of this new operation?

Use a temporary agency for facility services and manage everything from the corporate office.

Hire a permanent staff of facility employees for the new operation.

Contract with an outsource company to provide facility management services for the new operation.

Relocate some existing facility employees to the new operation.

Q119. What are the four methods a project manager should use to prove project requirements are met?

Planning, specifying, negotiating, and payment

Testing, analysis, inspection, and interpolation

Interviewing, observing, inspecting, and reporting

Analysis, reporting, measurement, and permit sign-off

Q120. What defines the building envelope?

Stairways and vertical penetrations.

Exterior walls, roof, windows, and doors.

Corridors and circulation spaces.

Electrical and mechanical areas.

Q121. How can you prevent power issues in a training room dependent on Power over Ethernet (PoE) switches?

Redundant power over Ethernet switches

Load shedding

Uninterruptible power supply

Capacity management

Q122. What describes a facility condition assessment?

A report detailing the sustainability goals of an organization

A five to ten-year facility plan incorporating owned and leased space

An inspection and analysis of energy flows in a building with the objective of understanding energy efficiency

A report of the current state of a building and component systems

Q123. What factors are included in the SMART approach to developing key performance indicators?

Systematic, measurable, achievable, reliable, time-bound.

Specific, measurable, achievable, rational, time-bound.

Specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time-bound.

Systematic, measurable, achievable, related, time-bound.

Q124. A research lab is moving into a newly-leased facility. Their last move was three years ago. They most recently shared a building with other functions, and the facility manager needs to determine whether they have any special facility requirements. How can the facility manager best identify any special needs?

Ask the facility service management to identify the needs.

Study the requirements as stated for the previous move.

Meet with the research lab management.

Survey only management of the research lab.

Q125. What is a characteristic of hazardous waste?

Toxicity.

Color.

Odor.

Origin.

Q126. What is the correct order for strategic facility planning?

Strategic purpose, strategic planning, business unit planning, tactical planning, execution, measurement, feedback

Strategic purpose, business unit planning, strategic planning level, measurement, execution, feedback, tactical planning

Tactical planning, business unit planning, execution, measurement, feedback, strategic planning, strategic purpose

Business unit planning, tactical planning, execution, measurement, feedback, strategic purpose, strategic planning

Q127. Employees in a research laboratory have been reporting an increased amount of static electricity charges that are negatively impacting their ability to perform certain experiments. What indoor air quality system should be assessed?

Heating

Air circulation

Humidification

Cooling

Q128. Your organization is considering relocating from leased building #1 into leased building #2. Leased building
#1 is 55,000 sq. ft. costing $1,100,000 annually. Leased building #2 is 50,000 sq. ft. costing $1,100,000 annually. Building #1 can house 500 people and building #2 can house 580people. Your company’s benchmark is $2,000.00 per person per year for leased space. Which building has a lower cost per sq. ft.?

Building #1 has a lower cost per sq. ft.

Building #1 and Building #2 are the same cost per sq. ft.

Building #1 has a lower cost per person.

Building #2 has a lower cost per sq. ft.

Q129. What information does the facility manager need to ensure the proposed cafeteria price increases are reasonable?

Current purchasing data

Written justifications and data

Current market data

Customer opinion surveys

Q130. Which technology would be BEST to notify facility occupants during an emergency?

Company’s social media profile.

Emergency notification system.