SIA Door Supervisor & Security Officer Exam Practice Test (Independent)

Start with the free sample

The 3 free questions (one from the common unit, one from the door supervisor unit and one from the security officer unit) run in the same test player as the mocks. Each unit mock has the published number of questions and the published time, with the topics mixed.

The five unit mocks

Door supervisors sit the common unit, the door supervisor unit, conflict management and physical intervention. Security officers sit the common unit, the security officer unit and conflict management.

What the questions practise

• Principles of Working in the Private Security Industry: The industry and the SIA, civil and criminal law, the Private Security Industry Act 2001, equality and data protection, citizen's arrest and reasonable force, health and safety, fire, emergencies, communication, records and Section 9 statements, terror threat awareness, vulnerable people, after an incident.
• Principles of Working as a Door Supervisor: Crimes you may meet, searching and refusals, drugs, preserving evidence, the Licensing Act 2003 (objectives, drunkenness, children, refusing entry and ejection), queues and capacity, radios and body-worn cameras.
• Principles of Working as a Security Officer: Security officer roles and the control room, access and egress control, alarms and protection systems, personal safety, drugs, searching people and vehicles, patrols, incidents and evidence.
• Application of Conflict Management: Causes and stages of conflict, the attitude and behaviour cycle, dynamic risk assessment, triggers and inhibitors, de-escalation, positioning, empathy and problem solving.
• Application of Physical Intervention Skills: The law on force, primary and secondary controls, risk factors, acute behavioural disturbance, positional asphyxia, ground restraint, red flags, after an intervention.

Each question has four options and one correct answer, and each explanation says which part of the qualification content or which law it comes from.

What you see after every mock

• Your score against the unit's pass mark and your score in each topic, so you can see which topics cost you the most marks.
• Your time per question, against the published time for that paper.
• The reason behind every answer, with the part of the qualification content or the law it is based on.

A score here is your score on our questions. It is not an exam result and does not predict one.

The exams, as the SIA and the awarding body describe them

• To apply for a front line door supervisor or security guard licence, you need a licence-linked qualification. The current full qualifications, which these mocks follow, are the Level 2 Award for Working as a Door Supervisor in the Private Security Industry and the Level 2 Award for Working as a Security Officer in the Private Security Industry (in Scotland, the Award at SCQF Level 6). If you last held the relevant door supervisor or security guard licence less than 3 years ago, GOV.UK accepts the older qualifications it lists together with the relevant refresher qualification. You train with a provider approved by an awarding organisation.
• You need an Emergency First Aid at Work qualification, or equivalent, before you start the door supervisor or security officer training.
• Each knowledge unit is an externally set and marked multiple-choice exam. The question counts, times and pass marks above are from the SIA's Get Training document and the awarding body's specifications. Each unit with a practical part also has a practical assessment, which needs 100%.
• The SIA consulted on new qualification content in 2026 (the consultation closed on 23 October 2026). It says final specifications will be published in winter 2026 and the new qualifications will launch later in 2027. The units, questions, times and pass marks on this page are those of the current qualifications.

Sources: GOV.UK, Check what training you need to get an SIA licence; SIA, Get Training (assessment tables); SIA qualification specifications; Pearson BTEC Level 2 Award specifications for Door Supervisors and Security Officers (Issue 2, September 2023); SIA consultation news story. Read on 25 October 2026. Your training provider and awarding organisation are the authority on how your exams run.

Independent practice material by ProSyllabus. Not the official exam, and not made or endorsed by the SIA or any awarding body. The unit exams are set by the awarding organisations; these are our own questions. Facts about the exams come from the SIA's and the awarding body's own pages, read on 25 October 2026.