May 23

Three tips to get IFMA CFM certification and pass the exam from the first attempt!

CFM certification by IFMA is considered the top qualification in the facilities management industry with the highest reputation, and it's regarded as a standard in facilities management, so if you are a facilities manager and want to get promoted, you need to get your CFM Certification immediately.
But, does the CFM certification need special requirements?
As it's the top qualification in the industry; IFMA demands a minimum experience of 3 years for FM bachelor's/Master's holders or five years for other paths such as engineering or business management. In this blog, we'll put your hands on the best three tips towards acquiring your CFM certificate very soon.
Here are the 3 tips you need towards your certification:

In this blog

  • Introduction
  • How CFM Certification Benefits You ?
  •  Mistake #1:
    Failing to Create a Structured Study Plan
  • Mistake #2: Overlooking the 11 Core Competencies
  • 04 Three Steps For the Certified Facility Manager Certification Process

Step #1:Join a CFM exam preparation workshop:

Many people ask Is the CFM exam hard? Well, it is not hard, yet it needs a wide range of knowledge and abilities to accomplish the complicity and multifacetedness, as it's a subject-matter competency-based exam, it means that the exam doesn't evaluate the amount of knowledge that you have, but also your critical thinking and other skills.

  • How do I get ready for the CFM exam?

Preparing for the CFM exam can be difficult for people unfamiliar with its structure or subject matter, it’s recommended to participate a professional CFM training course prepared with intense experience in order to acquire the required skills that can’t easily collected with only the material.
Find live workshop with interactive environment Interactive strategy in the live class enables participants to point out their interest in facilities management topics and redirects the examples to each field of theirs'; participants shared knowledge will add more value as the instructor discusses it and guides them to solve problems on their own.
BEI exam preparation course is designed by elite experts of the field to elevate your skills in critical thinking& problem-solving.
Most students reported that the preparation for the CFM exam takes about 3 months in total, depending on the time dedicated to studying every week. To ensure you prepare for the CFM exam, you shall dedicate between 3 to 5 hours per week to preparation, with time split between reading, practicing questions, and reviewing case studies.
  • How long is our course ?
 36 hours of highly interactive & engaging training is run by the directory level facility managers with us on BEI course , course participants acquire knowledge and skills to solve facility any management challenges within all types of facilities and fields.
  • Instructor support
With the reach for consultancy, our certified experts will lend a hand to you in any difficulties you find within the competencies or the sample questions.
  • Training material access
The lifetime access to material, questions and the library under construction will keep your hands on a reliable source of knowledge and reachable reference in facilities management topics.

Sign up for the Certified Facility Manager Exam Preparation course .

Step #2:Choose the right instructor

Choosing the right instructor is mandatory; as said: you're the average of the five people around you; likewise, the course fruits will be more or less a combination of the instructor’s experience and knowledge conduction skills, along with brilliance in material and exam mastering skills.

  • Pick hands-on experienced instructor

CFM certification is a professional certification, and as we mentioned, it’s considered a standard for facility management; therefore, choosing experienced instructors who are active in the field must be a priority for practical advisory.
Instructors who are not up-to-date with the industry will lack the sense and spirit of experts and won’t reinforce your skill set since their skills are not strong enough.
  • Find instructor with high level of career
The career level the instructors occupy indicates how professional they are in the field, for example a site engineer will have much narrower overview than a director who has climbed the steps up to the top, the director deals with higher management and defines the general strategies but site engineer impalements plans, the director initiates and maintains business and financial management but lower levels follow them.

What CFM Course Students say

Live workshop participants loved the elevating knowledge and tips that empowered them to utilize the max of their expertise and reshape it from a technical point of view to a management point of view, you can find reviews on the live workshop page.

Adnan Atwa
New concept to deliver the information, great approach, and letting you understand what the FM is. Moreover, it's a real IFMA simulation exam. In short, just study this material and apply for your CFM exam. Thanks for Mr. Jawad AlTamimi for dedicating his time to help us.
Saravanan Ambalathadi
The course is very helpful, and I got more information which I can implement in my personal and professional life. All the information available related to my course, and I believe it will help me to get certified in IFMA cfm exam. The instructor is very knowledgeable and explains in detail all questions.
Nino Apuya
Mr. Jawad is a great instructor he has a full skill of communication, he shared his knowledge, ideas, and experience which help me to accept the new knowledge. Very interesting with the content of the course. It was in my field of interest. It helps me to grow, better understanding of how facility manager handle in every situation, it also improve communication skill.
Ahmed Elsayed
Illustrating a Very smooth & updated way of explaining the practical core of topics, without filling your mind with unnecessary theoretical data.
Teo Can
Thanks to Mr. Jawad Al Tamimi for CFM course it helped a lot to grow myself on the business ground! I highly advice everyone to join this course who wants to grow in business.
Muhammad Ibrahim
An Amazing experience during this course, we are thankful and much appreciated to Mr. Jawad Altamimi for all his efforts and time which he used to transfer and share his knowledge to us. Thank You BEI Team.
Ahmed Hanno
I took the CFM course there, very professional institute. good follow up with the clients. highly recommended.
Ibrahim Gharbi
Great Instructor. Modernized way of learning. Interactive session. knowledge acquired is up to date and dealing with real life problems within the market.
Mohamed Zedan
Although I'm not a facility manager, I have more and more benefits of the course as Maintenance manager and planning Engineer, the course added a good knowledge for me and I think it was a very useful georney with everyone herereplyReplymore_vert

Step #3: Solve exam preparation toolkit

Some exam applicants who didn't have the exam experience yet could fail due to many exams related skills or due to lack of knowledge in specific topic of the exam, that’s what Preparation Toolkit is designed for.

Those who joined or completed the training but want to fill knowledge gaps or get familiar the exam experience and get experts extract of dealing with exams will find what they need in the CFM Exam preparation toolkit.

The exam toolkit helps participants avoid the risk of failing the $800 exam and wasting their time and investment; it gives them needed skills and simulation of the exam so they don't fail due to exam related issues.
Participants will have access to all they need in this complete toolbox to ace the CFM test and become certified on the first try.
The toolkit was created by facility management specialists who thoroughly grasped the methodology and substance of the test.
Facilities managers will feel confident and thoroughly prepared for the test with the study materials, simulator questions, and mock examinations provided.
  • Booking the  CFM exam:
Book your exam just after finishing the Course and toolkit to take the exam with clear fresh mind just after the class

Invest in yourself and go higher with your career
Sign up for the Certified Facility Manager Exam Preparation course .