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 “Lamp@61” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 2.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “sandwolftent80” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 3.🔐 Is “Lake-Corn-Mango43” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 4.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “lotuslampchaidrum” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 5.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Neem.73” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 6.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Rohan2012 (b) drum.frog.dust.85
- 7.🔐 Is “Tara2009” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 8.🔐 Is “Gold.Fern.Vine72” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 9.🔢 How many characters are in “Brick.Nest.2015”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 10.🔢 How many characters are in “password38”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 11.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Tara_Toast_87 (b) PearlPondMoon88
- 12.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “iloveyou38” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 13.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) moon@tent@leaf@66 (b) Mango@Cloud@2012
- 14.🔢 How many characters are in “Iloveyou!Pearl13”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 15.🔐 “Iloveyou_River80” 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
- 16.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Letmein-Lotus27” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 17.🔢 How many characters are in “ShellBrickLotus75”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 18.🔤 Which is NOT one of the four kinds of characters? (a) symbols (b) digits (c) capital letters (d) emojis
- 19.🔐 Is “admin72” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 20.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) neem#ship#bell#30 (b) boatfrogplumtiger
- 21.🎂 Why is a birthday a poor password? (a) it is hard to type (b) others can guess it (c) it is too long (d) it has symbols
- 22.🔢 How many characters are in “mango@shell@vine@19”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 23.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Gold.Chai.Boat74” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 24.🧮 By our rule, how many kinds of characters should a strong password use at least? (a) 3 (b) 0 (c) 1 (d) 2
- 25.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) leaflampgoldrain (b) HillLotusPearl18
- 26.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “sand.bell.mango.58” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 27.🔐 By our rule, a strong password has at least how many characters? (a) 12 (b) 8 (c) 4 (d) 6
- 28.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) tiger.vine.tent.11 (b) iloveyou74
- 29.🔢 How many characters are in “Aarav-Tiger-85”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 30.🔐 Is “Lake#Cloud#Brick79” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 31.🔐 “sandlakeboat10” 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
- 32.🔐 “corndusthilllotus” 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
- 33.🔐 Is “Nest#Rain#Fern17” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 34.🔐 Is “Password-Wolf48” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 35.🔢 How many characters are in “Password-Fern29”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 36.🔐 Is “iloveyou17” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 37.🔐 Is “admin29” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 38.🔐 “neemtigerkitepond” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) fewer than 3 kinds (b) has a common word (c) has a name or year (d) shorter than 12
- 39.🔢 How many characters are in “Fern.Brick.2015”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 40.🔐 Is “Admin.Plum79” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
Answer key
- weak
- 2
- strong
- 1
- 4
- drum.frog.dust.85
- weak
- strong
- 15
- 10
- PearlPondMoon88
- 2
- moon@tent@leaf@66
- 16
- has a common word
- 4
- 17
- emojis
- weak
- neem#ship#bell#30
- others can guess it
- 19
- 4
- 3
- HillLotusPearl18
- 3
- 12
- tiger.vine.tent.11
- 14
- strong
- fewer than 3 kinds
- fewer than 3 kinds
- strong
- weak
- 15
- weak
- weak
- fewer than 3 kinds
- 15
- weak
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