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 “chai!nest!boat!68” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 2.🔢 How many characters are in “pondcornmango52”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 3.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Saanvi!Cloud!63 (b) FernWheelNeem27
- 4.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Frog#Mango#Fern19 (b) iloveyou64
- 5.🔐 Is “Rain_25” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 6.🔐 Is “kitebrickdustfrog” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 7.🔢 How many characters are in “admin48”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 8.🔐 “Ishaan.Wheel.44” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) has a name or year (b) has a common word (c) fewer than 3 kinds (d) shorter than 12
- 9.🔐 “drumboatcloudpond” 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
- 10.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) letmein15 (b) Vine!Leaf!Frog12
- 11.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Qwerty@Nest88” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 12.🔐 “Password#Nest57” 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
- 13.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Tiger-Boat-Kite31 (b) Nisha@Rain@63
- 14.🔤 Which is NOT one of the four kinds of characters? (a) capital letters (b) digits (c) emojis (d) symbols
- 15.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “tentriverkitefern” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 16.🔐 “Iloveyou-Hill86” 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
- 17.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “kitevinebrick13” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 18.🧮 By our rule, how many kinds of characters should a strong password use at least? (a) 1 (b) 3 (c) 0 (d) 2
- 19.🔐 “Sand!Dust!2010” 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
- 20.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) rain.wheel.toast.47 (b) riverleafpondbrick
- 21.🔐 Is “Tiger_82” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 22.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) pearlbricksandriver (b) TigerPondKite25
- 23.🎂 Why is a birthday a poor password? (a) others can guess it (b) it is too long (c) it is hard to type (d) it has symbols
- 24.🔐 Is “letmein85” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 25.🔐 “cloudbrickboat20” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) has a name or year (b) fewer than 3 kinds (c) shorter than 12 (d) has a common word
- 26.🔐 “moonrivervine86” 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
- 27.🔢 How many characters are in “Tiger.54”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 28.🔢 How many characters are in “Toast#87”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 29.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) sand.river.lamp.64 (b) Tara2015
- 30.🔐 Is “Ishaan-Gold-76” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 31.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Vine@62 (b) KiteLotusBell11
- 32.🔐 “pearlvineboat14” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) has a name or year (b) fewer than 3 kinds (c) shorter than 12 (d) has a common word
- 33.🔢 How many characters are in “Lake-56”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 34.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) DrumTentShell41 (b) Ananya!Lotus!37
- 35.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Meera-Moon-80” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 36.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Rohan@Brick@58” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 37.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Drum_Pearl_Ship71 (b) Lotus.Mango.2015
- 38.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Fern@Lotus@Chai13 (b) Kite-34
- 39.🔐 By our rule, a strong password has at least how many characters? (a) 4 (b) 8 (c) 12 (d) 6
- 40.🔢 How many characters are in “dustmangolamp39”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
Answer key
- strong
- 15
- FernWheelNeem27
- Frog#Mango#Fern19
- weak
- weak
- 7
- has a name or year
- fewer than 3 kinds
- Vine!Leaf!Frog12
- 4
- has a common word
- Tiger-Boat-Kite31
- emojis
- 1
- has a common word
- 2
- 3
- has a name or year
- rain.wheel.toast.47
- weak
- TigerPondKite25
- others can guess it
- weak
- fewer than 3 kinds
- fewer than 3 kinds
- 8
- 8
- sand.river.lamp.64
- weak
- KiteLotusBell11
- fewer than 3 kinds
- 7
- DrumTentShell41
- 4
- 4
- Drum_Pearl_Ship71
- Fern@Lotus@Chai13
- 12
- 15
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