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 is hard to type (b) it is too long (c) others can guess it (d) it has symbols
- 2.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Corn#Neem#Wolf15 (b) Cloud@23
- 3.🔐 “Vine@75” 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
- 4.🔢 How many characters are in “Gold-Mango-2010”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 5.🔐 “Tent!25” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) shorter than 12 (b) fewer than 3 kinds (c) has a common word (d) has a name or year
- 6.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Saanvi-Nest-16” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 7.🔐 Is “cloud!vine!hill!40” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 8.🔐 Is “BrickBellCorn25” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 9.🔐 Is “WheelNestTiger63” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 10.🔐 Is “Ishaan2008” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 11.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Diya.Drum.54” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 12.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Kabir@Lotus@18” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 13.🔐 Is “cloud_moon_tiger_86” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 14.🔐 “seedhillgoldwheel” 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
- 15.🔐 Is “Arjun.Hill.72” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 16.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “toastriverplum16” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 17.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) pearl#rain#wolf#52 (b) Saanvi2013
- 18.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “BoatHillWheel64” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 19.🔐 Is “Letmein.Plum24” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 20.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Qwerty@Nest69 (b) Brick.Frog.Ship79
- 21.🔐 “Kite#Nest#2010” 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
- 22.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Drum!16 (b) PondBrickDrum42
- 23.🔐 Is “Toast.Nest.River34” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 24.🔐 Is “fern-frog-toast-69” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 25.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Hill#Cloud#Rain54 (b) Kite-Shell-2015
- 26.🔐 Is “Boat@Shell@Tiger44” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 27.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) pondlakeraincorn (b) rain_shell_tiger_26
- 28.🗝️ Where is the best place to keep your password? (a) on your notebook cover (b) in a class chat (c) in your head (d) on a sticky note
- 29.🔐 “Mango#Seed#2008” 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
- 30.🔤 Which is NOT one of the four kinds of characters? (a) emojis (b) symbols (c) capital letters (d) digits
- 31.🔐 Is “pearlwheeltoast20” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 32.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) rain-corn-brick-43 (b) iloveyou67
- 33.🔢 How many characters are in “Password#Vine82”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 34.🔐 “Cloud.Brick.2009” 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
- 35.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “shipdustmoon10” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 36.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) lotusmangobrickhill (b) Lamp.Seed.Drum54
- 37.🔐 “plummoondustnest” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) fewer than 3 kinds (b) shorter than 12 (c) has a common word (d) has a name or year
- 38.🔐 Is “Iloveyou.Leaf47” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 39.🔐 “Neem@Corn@2009” 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
- 40.🔐 Is “Toast.Pearl.2016” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
Answer key
- others can guess it
- Corn#Neem#Wolf15
- shorter than 12
- 15
- shorter than 12
- 4
- strong
- strong
- strong
- weak
- 4
- 4
- strong
- fewer than 3 kinds
- weak
- 2
- pearl#rain#wolf#52
- 3
- weak
- Brick.Frog.Ship79
- has a name or year
- PondBrickDrum42
- strong
- strong
- Hill#Cloud#Rain54
- strong
- rain_shell_tiger_26
- in your head
- has a name or year
- emojis
- weak
- rain-corn-brick-43
- 15
- has a name or year
- 2
- Lamp.Seed.Drum54
- fewer than 3 kinds
- weak
- has a name or year
- weak
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