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.🎂 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.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) wheelboatbrickseed (b) wolf_sand_plum_33
- 3.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “admin43” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 4.🔢 How many characters are in “drum.river.dust.23”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 5.🔢 How many characters are in “wolfferndrum52”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 6.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) plum@chai@gold@79 (b) Seed!19
- 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.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) boattigernest42 (b) Rain!Moon!Pearl78
- 9.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Toast.Brick.2008” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 10.🔐 Is “Saanvi2009” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 11.🔐 By our rule, a strong password has at least how many characters? (a) 4 (b) 12 (c) 8 (d) 6
- 12.🔢 How many characters are in “tent-boat-cloud-43”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 13.🔢 How many characters are in “bellfernlotusmango”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 14.🔐 Is “ShellSeedShip78” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 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.🧮 By our rule, how many kinds of characters should a strong password use at least? (a) 0 (b) 3 (c) 2 (d) 1
- 17.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Pond#19” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 18.🔐 Is “Lotus_Gold_Leaf27” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 19.🔢 How many characters are in “plumrainbellneem”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 20.🔢 How many characters are in “Cloud!Wheel!2018”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 21.🔢 How many characters are in “Diya2008”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 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.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “admin32” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 24.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “fernbricktent80” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 25.🔐 Is “Neem#Drum#Tiger28” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 26.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “moon-dust-kite-14” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 27.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) TentRainSand23 (b) wolfshellmangoleaf
- 28.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “toastpondlake52” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 29.🔢 How many characters are in “toast!rain!drum!40”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 30.🔐 Is “Drum-Leaf-2017” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 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.🔢 How many characters are in “Tara!Kite!48”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 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.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “password34” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 35.🔐 Is “Lake!Wheel!Dust53” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 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.🔐 Is “lake!tiger!toast!22” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 38.🔐 Is “Pearl!Ship!Hill41” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 39.🔐 Is “Plum_Hill_Corn86” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 40.🔐 Is “DrumLotusNeem36” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
Answer key
- others can guess it
- wolf_sand_plum_33
- 2
- 18
- 14
- plum@chai@gold@79
- has a name or year
- Rain!Moon!Pearl78
- 4
- weak
- 12
- 18
- 18
- strong
- has a name or year
- 3
- 4
- strong
- 16
- 16
- 8
- fewer than 3 kinds
- 2
- 2
- strong
- 3
- TentRainSand23
- 2
- 18
- weak
- has a name or year
- 12
- fewer than 3 kinds
- 2
- strong
- fewer than 3 kinds
- strong
- strong
- strong
- strong
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