IEC 61970 and 61968 together referred as Common Information Model (CIM), are proposed to facilitate integration of EMS applications with proprietary data formats and information exchange between control centers. To use Information and Communication Technology (ICT) systems in an optimized manner, it is necessary to partition the potentially voluminous data into subsets given their sources, expected exchange frequency, and subscribing applications. In response to these requirements, the concept of CIM profiles is brought up by CIMug. In this paper, functions illustrating the dependency between exchange data volume and basic grid parameters for each data profile are presented. A CIM/XML/RDFfile for a commonly available 40 bus test system modeled according to CIM 13 together with examples provided by standards are used as references. The method is validated by estimating the CIM/XML/RDF file sizes of similarly available 100 bus and 60 bus test systems. The contribution of this paper is that it provides ICT system designers with a means to estimate the corresponding requirements for various CIM based data exchange scenarios. The estimations are performed based on commonly known grid parameters such as number of buses, branches, generators, transformers and loads.