An academy for networking and IT certifications: guided courses, interactive practice, and full mock exams sat under each certificate's own real rules. Every question explains why the right answer is right — and points you at the source it came from.
Free with any SecuryTik account. Exam practice is live today — courses and hands-on labs are being built.
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How SILA works
Practice
Untimed and interactive. Answer a question and the explanation opens underneath it — why the right answer is right, why each distractor is wrong, and the documentation section to go and read. Take 10, 25 or 50 questions, or drill one module until it sticks.
Mock & Real Exams
A full sitting under the real conditions — the question count, the time limit and the pass mark are the ones that certificate actually uses, and nothing is revealed until you submit. You finish with a score, a verdict, and a per-topic breakdown of exactly which modules cost you marks.
Courses soon
Structured tracks that teach the syllabus rather than test it — vendor certification paths, and practical courses built around the jobs engineers actually get handed. Each lesson ends in the practice bank for that module.
Hands-on labs soon
Configuration exercises against real gear behaviour, not screenshots. Build the scenario, and get told what you got wrong and why — the half of certification that multiple choice cannot reach.
A fair paper, every time
Papers are not drawn at random. Every module in the syllabus is represented, and the mix of easy, medium and hard questions is matched to the level of the certificate — so a practice score tells you something true about where you stand, instead of depending on which questions you happened to get.
How we keep the exam honest
A practice score only means something if it was hard to fake. Here is exactly what happens during a timed exam — and what we deliberately do not do.
The answers never reach your browser
During a timed exam the correct answers are not sent to the page at all. There is nothing in the HTML to read and nothing in the network traffic to inspect — they stay on the server until you submit.
The clock is ours, not your browser's
Time is enforced on the server. Closing the tab, reloading, or losing your connection does not pause it and does not buy extra minutes — the countdown on screen is only a display.
No two papers are the same
Every sitting draws a fresh paper from a large bank, balanced across each syllabus module and each level of difficulty. Two people sitting the same exam do not get the same questions, so a shared answer key is worth very little.
Copying is switched off
Selecting, copying and right-clicking are disabled on the question card for the length of a timed exam. Practice Mode leaves them on — there you want to paste a command straight into a lab.
Leaving the exam screen is recorded
Switching to another tab or window during a timed exam is counted on the server, where a reload cannot reset it. You get two warnings; the third ends the sitting and submits it as it stands.
A sitting stopped that way earns nothing
If the integrity rules end an exam, it issues no certificate — whatever it scored. Certificates are also publicly verifiable, valid for two years, and replaced when you pass the same exam again.
And what we do not do
We do not use your webcam, record your screen, or ask you to install anything. That also means being straight with you about the limit: no web page can see a second screen, a phone on the desk, or a printed sheet. What we can do is make every paper unique, keep the answers and the clock out of your browser's reach, and make casual shortcuts more trouble than they are worth — so the score you get is the one you earned.
Every vendor arrives the same way: the question bank first, then the guided course and the labs on top of it.
Frequently asked questions
What people ask before they start studying.
What is SILA?
SILA (SecuryTik Interactive Learning Academy) is an online academy for networking and IT certifications. It offers guided courses, interactive practice and full mock exams. A paper is drawn at random from a real certification question bank and sat under that certificate's own rules, and every question carries an explanation of why the right answer is right plus a reference to the source documentation.
Which certifications can I practise for?
All ten MikroTik certifications are live now. Cisco, Huawei, Ubuntu, Ubiquiti, Grandstream and Microsoft are being built. Each vendor arrives the same way: the question bank first, then the guided course and the labs on top of it.
What is the difference between Practice and a mock exam?
Practice is untimed and teaches as you go: answer a question and the explanation opens underneath it, including why each wrong option is wrong. You choose the length, and you can drill a single syllabus module. A mock exam is a full sitting under the certificate's real conditions — nothing is revealed until you submit, and the clock is enforced on the server, so closing the browser does not pause it.
How are the questions chosen?
Not by a plain random draw. The selection is apportioned twice: by difficulty, against a mix set by the certificate's level, so a Basic certificate sits easier than an Extended one; and by syllabus module, proportional to each module's bank size but with a floor of one, so no topic is ever missing from a paper. The result is that your score reflects what you know rather than which questions you happened to draw.
Does SILA cost anything?
No. SILA is free with any SecuryTik account — no card, no trial period, and no charge per exam. The same account also opens SAMM and SICO.
Is a pass in SILA an official certification?
No, and it is not meant to be. SILA is preparation: it tells you whether you are ready to book the real exam, and which modules to go back to if you are not. The certification itself is awarded by the vendor.
Find out what you actually know.
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