Security guard and protective services

About this practice suite

This suite prepares candidates for security guard and protective services selection in the police, justice, corrections, border, and security sector with 5 skill areas: situational judgment, attention and concentration, verbal reasoning, critical thinking and numerical reasoning. 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

• Situational judgment — Evaluating workplace responses against role-relevant principles.
• Attention and concentration — Sustained focus, selective attention, and accuracy under time pressure.
• Verbal reasoning — Drawing conclusions from written information without relying on outside assumptions.
• Critical thinking — Evaluating evidence, assumptions, arguments, credibility, and alternative explanations.
• Numerical reasoning — Arithmetic, fractions, percentages, ratios, rates, estimation, word problems, and number relationships.

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. What is a primary duty of a security guard?

   • A. Protect people, property, and access per policy
   • B. Set company budgets
   • C. Hire staff
   • D. Design building plans

2. You find an exterior door propped open after hours. What is best?

   • A. Leave it for cleaning crew
   • B. Secure or report it immediately under procedure
   • C. Assume someone authorized it
   • D. Remove the prop and walk away

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.