10 free, exam-style Certified Floodplain Manager (CFM) practice questions with answers and explanations. No signup required. Work through them below, then take the full free CFM practice test to study every exam domain.
A facility manager replaces 80 fluorescent light fixtures with new LED fixtures throughout an office floor. The total cost is $42,000, and the manufacturer rates the LEDs for a 15-year service life. The expenditure is MOST APPROPRIATELY classified as:
Correct answer: C - A capital expense, because the assets have a useful life greater than one year and exceed typical capitalization thresholds
Occupants on the 14th floor of a high-rise office building report a strong, sweet chemical odor accompanied by complaints of headache and dizziness. The facility manager's FIRST action should be to:
Correct answer: A - Evacuate the affected floor and notify the building's emergency response team
A 500,000-sf office building has $6 million in deferred maintenance backlog. The current replacement value is $75 million. The Facility Condition Index (FCI) indicates the building is in:
Correct answer: B - Fair condition
A facility manager is rolling out a major workplace transformation, moving from assigned seating to activity-based working across a 250,000-sf headquarters. Six months after launch, occupancy data shows utilization is far below projections, and informal observations reveal staff are quietly reverting to claiming "their" desks. According to the ADKAR model, which element was MOST LIKELY underemphasized during the rollout?
Correct answer: C - Reinforcement to sustain the change
A hospital's IT recovery plan specifies that, following a disruption, patient billing systems must be functional within 6 hours and the organization can tolerate the loss of no more than 1 hour of data. The Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) are, respectively:
Correct answer: A - RTO = 6 hours; RPO = 1 hour
A facility manager is preparing the organization's annual sustainability report. Refrigerant leakage from the building's chillers during the reporting year totaled 45 kg of HFC-134a. Under the GHG Protocol, these emissions should be reported as:
Correct answer: A - Scope 1 emissions, because they are direct emissions from owned and operated equipment
In a 200,000-sf hospital, the maintenance team's central stockroom is located in the basement. Technicians average 12 trips per shift to retrieve parts because frequently-used items are not stocked in satellite locations near the work areas. Under Lean methodology, this scenario MOST DIRECTLY illustrates the waste of:
Correct answer: C - Motion
A facility manager is evaluating a lease for 23,000 rentable square feet (RSF) in a Class A office building. The building has a 15% load factor. The usable square footage (USF) available to the tenant is approximately:
Correct answer: B - 20,000 USF
In February 2024, NIST released Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0. The most significant structural change from CSF 1.1 was:
Correct answer: A - The addition of "Govern" as a sixth core function
A construction project has a Budget at Completion (BAC) of $500,000. At the current status review, the Earned Value (EV) is $200,000, the Actual Cost (AC) is $250,000, and the Planned Value (PV) is $240,000. The project's Cost Performance Index (CPI) indicates that the project is:
Correct answer: B - Performing worse than planned, with a cost overrun of approximately 25%
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