FMP study plan

Map the Operations and Maintenance domain into its component sub-areas and rate your current confidence on each on a 1-5 scale

Define the core facility management role and list the primary O&M responsibilities it carries across building systems

Build a personal glossary of at least 25 O&M terms and define each in one sentence from memory

Diagnose how preventive versus corrective versus predictive maintenance differ and give one facility example of each

Sequence the typical life cycle stages of a building or system and identify the O&M decisions made at each stage

Compare reactive, planned, and condition-based maintenance strategies and justify when each is appropriate

Explain how a computerized maintenance management system supports work order tracking, scheduling, and reporting

Calculate simple maintenance performance indicators such as mean time to repair and percentage of planned work

Describe how building systems such as HVAC, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection are monitored and maintained

Outline the health, safety, and environmental obligations that shape O&M work practices

Distinguish project scope, schedule, and cost baselines and state why each must be controlled

Draft a work breakdown structure for a small facility project down to at least three levels

Construct a simple network diagram from a task list and identify the critical path

Compute earliest and latest start and finish times and total float for each activity

Explain how scope changes are documented, approved, and reflected in schedule and budget

Identify common project risks in facility work and propose a mitigation for each

Compare project delivery methods and procurement routes and state one advantage and one drawback of each

Describe how project quality is planned, assured, and controlled through closeout

Distinguish operating budgets from capital budgets and classify sample expenditures into each

Build a simple cash flow projection across the life of a project

Read and interpret the main financial statements and explain what each reveals about an organization

Compute and interpret common ratios covering liquidity, profitability, and leverage

Explain life cycle costing and compare it with lowest-initial-cost decision making

Evaluate a lease-versus-buy or repair-versus-replace decision using discounted cash flow logic

Build a facility operating budget from given assumptions and justify each major line

Explain how capital planning and reserve funding support long-term asset stewardship

Compare leadership styles and match each to a facility management situation

Draft a stakeholder communication plan for a disruptive building project

Explain how organizational strategy cascades into facility strategy and align one facility goal to a business objective

Describe how to develop, motivate, and evaluate a facility team including performance feedback

Outline a change management approach for introducing a new process or system

Integrate all four domains by solving timed mixed-topic practice questions and reviewing every miss