Control-room monitoring

About this practice suite

This suite prepares candidates for control-room monitoring selection in the energy, utilities, nuclear, mining, and natural resources sector with 5 skill areas: attention and concentration, situational judgment, numerical reasoning, critical thinking and data checking and clerical accuracy. Every question was written by Novus editors for this suite — none are taken from live or leaked exams — and the full bank holds 52 scored questions across three modes, plus 8 reserve questions used to vary repeat attempts. Answer keys never ship to the browser: your answers are scored server-side, and results stay on your device.

Skills this suite practises

• Attention and concentration — Sustained focus, selective attention, and accuracy under time pressure.
• Situational judgment — Evaluating workplace responses against role-relevant principles.
• Numerical reasoning — Arithmetic, fractions, percentages, ratios, rates, estimation, word problems, and number relationships.
• Critical thinking — Evaluating evidence, assumptions, arguments, credibility, and alternative explanations.
• Data checking and clerical accuracy — Matching, filing, coding, record checking, and identifying discrepancies.

Sample questions from the guided bank

Two of the 10 guided-practice questions, shown exactly as they appear in a session. Answers and explanations are not printed here — keys stay on the server — so open guided practice to answer them and see how you did.

1. A control-room monitor's core job is to:

   • A. Redesign piping on the fly
   • B. Enter every work order personally in the field
   • C. Detect abnormal trends early and escalate using defined protocols
   • D. Silence panels to keep the room quiet

2. Two alarms arrive together: critical process trip risk and a low-priority printer fault. What is best?

   • A. Fix the printer first for convenience
   • B. Handle the process trip-risk alarm first, then the printer fault
   • C. Ignore both until the next hour
   • D. Acknowledge blindly without reading

Practice modes and timing

Guided practice is untimed-feeling and instructional; the mini-test is a short timed check; the full simulation mirrors a complete sitting. All three draw on separate question sets, so moving up a mode never repeats what you practised.

Study outline

Read the study outline for this suite’s skills, timings, and recommended lessons on one printable page, or download its standalone HTML file. The printable page can also be saved as a PDF from your browser.