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Cyber Safety Worksheet: Strong and Weak Passwords

Cyber safety lesson 2: Strong and weak passwords · Set 22 · 40 questions
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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. 1.🎂 Why is a birthday a poor password? (a) it has symbols (b) it is too long (c) others can guess it (d) it is hard to type
  2. 2.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) wheelboatbrickseed (b) wolf_sand_plum_33
  3. 3.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “admin43” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
  4. 4.🔢 How many characters are in “drum.river.dust.23”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
  5. 5.🔢 How many characters are in “wolfferndrum52”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
  6. 6.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) plum@chai@gold@79 (b) Seed!19
  7. 7.🔐 “Tara-Corn-88” 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
  8. 8.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) boattigernest42 (b) Rain!Moon!Pearl78
  9. 9.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Toast.Brick.2008” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
  10. 10.🔐 Is “Saanvi2009” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
  11. 11.🔐 By our rule, a strong password has at least how many characters? (a) 4 (b) 12 (c) 8 (d) 6
  12. 12.🔢 How many characters are in “tent-boat-cloud-43”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
  13. 13.🔢 How many characters are in “bellfernlotusmango”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
  14. 14.🔐 Is “ShellSeedShip78” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
  15. 15.🔐 “Mango@Shell@2008” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) has a common word (b) shorter than 12 (c) fewer than 3 kinds (d) has a name or year
  16. 16.🧮 By our rule, how many kinds of characters should a strong password use at least? (a) 0 (b) 3 (c) 2 (d) 1
  17. 17.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Pond#19” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
  18. 18.🔐 Is “Lotus_Gold_Leaf27” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
  19. 19.🔢 How many characters are in “plumrainbellneem”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
  20. 20.🔢 How many characters are in “Cloud!Wheel!2018”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
  21. 21.🔢 How many characters are in “Diya2008”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
  22. 22.🔐 “dustlotusgoldkite” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) has a name or year (b) has a common word (c) shorter than 12 (d) fewer than 3 kinds
  23. 23.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “admin32” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
  24. 24.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “fernbricktent80” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
  25. 25.🔐 Is “Neem#Drum#Tiger28” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
  26. 26.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “moon-dust-kite-14” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
  27. 27.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) TentRainSand23 (b) wolfshellmangoleaf
  28. 28.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “toastpondlake52” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
  29. 29.🔢 How many characters are in “toast!rain!drum!40”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
  30. 30.🔐 Is “Drum-Leaf-2017” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
  31. 31.🔐 “Meera-Seed-32” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) fewer than 3 kinds (b) has a common word (c) shorter than 12 (d) has a name or year
  32. 32.🔢 How many characters are in “Tara!Kite!48”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
  33. 33.🔐 “drumnestfern44” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) shorter than 12 (b) has a common word (c) fewer than 3 kinds (d) has a name or year
  34. 34.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “password34” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
  35. 35.🔐 Is “Lake!Wheel!Dust53” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
  36. 36.🔐 “leafshellchaipond” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) has a common word (b) has a name or year (c) fewer than 3 kinds (d) shorter than 12
  37. 37.🔐 Is “lake!tiger!toast!22” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
  38. 38.🔐 Is “Pearl!Ship!Hill41” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
  39. 39.🔐 Is “Plum_Hill_Corn86” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
  40. 40.🔐 Is “DrumLotusNeem36” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak

Answer key

  1. others can guess it
  2. wolf_sand_plum_33
  3. 2
  4. 18
  5. 14
  6. plum@chai@gold@79
  7. has a name or year
  8. Rain!Moon!Pearl78
  9. 4
  10. weak
  11. 12
  12. 18
  13. 18
  14. strong
  15. has a name or year
  16. 3
  17. 4
  18. strong
  19. 16
  20. 16
  21. 8
  22. fewer than 3 kinds
  23. 2
  24. 2
  25. strong
  26. 3
  27. TentRainSand23
  28. 2
  29. 18
  30. weak
  31. has a name or year
  32. 12
  33. fewer than 3 kinds
  34. 2
  35. strong
  36. fewer than 3 kinds
  37. strong
  38. strong
  39. strong
  40. strong

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