Cyber Safety Worksheet: Strong and Weak Passwords
Stay safe (Long, mixed, not guessable): Length: at least 12 characters (letters, digits and symbols all count). Mix: at least 3 kinds — small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols. Not guessable: no name, no year or birthday, no common word like password, qwerty or welcome. Break any one rule and the password is weak.
NameDateTime takenScore ___ / 40
- 1.🔐 Is “Seed.Kite.Wolf18” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 2.🔐 Is “Seed-23” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 3.🔐 Is “Welcome_Vine85” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 4.🔐 Is “sand-mango-pond-58” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 5.🔢 How many characters are in “Kabir2008”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 6.🔐 “Nisha-Kite-71” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) has a common word (b) fewer than 3 kinds (c) has a name or year (d) shorter than 12
- 7.🔐 Is “Pond@Lamp@Cloud69” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 8.🔐 “lakecloudshipmango” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) has a name or year (b) shorter than 12 (c) fewer than 3 kinds (d) has a common word
- 9.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “plumriverlamp23” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 10.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “mangoneemlake39” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 11.🎂 Why is a birthday a poor password? (a) it has symbols (b) it is hard to type (c) it is too long (d) others can guess it
- 12.🔢 How many characters are in “NeemTigerVine20”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 13.🔢 How many characters are in “Qwerty@Chai66”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 14.🔐 “Cloud!25” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) has a name or year (b) shorter than 12 (c) has a common word (d) fewer than 3 kinds
- 15.🗝️ Where is the best place to keep your password? (a) on your notebook cover (b) in a class chat (c) on a sticky note (d) in your head
- 16.🔐 Is “rain.wolf.seed.60” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 17.🔐 Is “Aarav#River#40” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 18.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Arjun-Dust-64” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 19.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Corn.Pond.Fern50 (b) Meera-Corn-64
- 20.🔐 By our rule, a strong password has at least how many characters? (a) 6 (b) 12 (c) 4 (d) 8
- 21.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Tiger#Kite#Chai23” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 22.🔐 “Letmein#Neem78” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) has a common word (b) fewer than 3 kinds (c) shorter than 12 (d) has a name or year
- 23.🔤 Which is NOT one of the four kinds of characters? (a) capital letters (b) symbols (c) emojis (d) digits
- 24.🔢 How many characters are in “Welcome#Moon40”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 25.🔐 Is “cloud#moon#hill#59” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 26.🔢 How many characters are in “CornWolfBoat53”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 27.🔐 Is “BellBrickPlum73” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 28.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Tiger.Kite.Cloud45 (b) shellhillmangodust
- 29.🔐 “lakeplumgold57” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) has a name or year (b) shorter than 12 (c) has a common word (d) fewer than 3 kinds
- 30.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “qwerty19” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 31.🔐 “pearlwolfshelldust” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) shorter than 12 (b) has a name or year (c) has a common word (d) fewer than 3 kinds
- 32.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Diya!Shell!27 (b) Shell#Lake#Lotus40
- 33.🔐 “Leaf.12” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) has a common word (b) fewer than 3 kinds (c) has a name or year (d) shorter than 12
- 34.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Neem.Rain.2010” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 35.🔢 How many characters are in “Ananya2008”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 36.🔢 How many characters are in “Qwerty-Kite55”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 37.🔐 “neemlakewolf77” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) fewer than 3 kinds (b) has a name or year (c) has a common word (d) shorter than 12
- 38.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “rainnestriverfrog” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 39.🔐 Is “FernSandFrog31” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 40.🔐 “Lotus@Wolf@2012” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) has a common word (b) shorter than 12 (c) has a name or year (d) fewer than 3 kinds
Answer key
- strong
- weak
- weak
- strong
- 9
- has a name or year
- strong
- fewer than 3 kinds
- 2
- 2
- others can guess it
- 15
- 13
- shorter than 12
- in your head
- strong
- weak
- 4
- Corn.Pond.Fern50
- 12
- 4
- has a common word
- emojis
- 14
- strong
- 14
- strong
- Tiger.Kite.Cloud45
- fewer than 3 kinds
- 2
- fewer than 3 kinds
- Shell#Lake#Lotus40
- shorter than 12
- 4
- 10
- 13
- fewer than 3 kinds
- 1
- strong
- has a name or year
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