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 “Tent_River_Pond13” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 2.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) FrogChaiMango70 (b) Ishaan2012
- 3.🔢 How many characters are in “ChaiWolfShip72”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 4.🎂 Why is a birthday a poor password? (a) it is too long (b) it is hard to type (c) others can guess it (d) it has symbols
- 5.🔢 How many characters are in “Vihaan_Lamp_74”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 6.🔁 Using one password for every account is… (a) safe (b) smart (c) required (d) risky
- 7.🔐 Is “Sand-15” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 8.🔢 How many characters are in “Kabir#Wheel#39”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 9.🔢 How many characters are in “welcome85”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 10.🔐 Is “tentwheelneem41” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 11.🔐 Is “Kite-Brick-River40” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 12.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) leafwolfcornbell (b) Lamp!Fern!Lake25
- 13.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “corn@neem@tent@55” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 14.🔐 “Brick.65” 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
- 15.🔢 How many characters are in “rain_frog_drum_58”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 16.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Vihaan2009 (b) HillMangoTent30
- 17.🔐 By our rule, a strong password has at least how many characters? (a) 8 (b) 4 (c) 12 (d) 6
- 18.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Dust.28 (b) River_Seed_Leaf81
- 19.🔐 “Cloud@23” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) shorter than 12 (b) has a name or year (c) fewer than 3 kinds (d) has a common word
- 20.🔐 “Nest-61” 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
- 21.🔢 How many characters are in “Admin@Hill64”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 22.🔐 Is “Cloud-Mango-2016” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 23.🔐 “Letmein-Shell47” 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
- 24.🔢 How many characters are in “Kabir2015”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 25.🔐 “Lotus#59” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) fewer than 3 kinds (b) shorter than 12 (c) has a name or year (d) has a common word
- 26.🔐 Is “shelltigerriverdust” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 27.🔤 Which is NOT one of the four kinds of characters? (a) emojis (b) capital letters (c) symbols (d) digits
- 28.🔐 “Vine#Leaf#2017” 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
- 29.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Drum.Dust.2011” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 30.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) boatdustwheel77 (b) tiger#kite#chai#89
- 31.🧮 By our rule, how many kinds of characters should a strong password use at least? (a) 0 (b) 2 (c) 1 (d) 3
- 32.🔐 Is “Seed_Nest_Dust70” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 33.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Neem-Vine-2012 (b) BellFrogNest26
- 34.🔐 Is “Vihaan_Leaf_25” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 35.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “neemwheelpearlbrick” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 36.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) pearlpondneem58 (b) hill.lake.mango.86
- 37.🔢 How many characters are in “River_Ship_Dust65”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 38.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) drum.vine.frog.30 (b) Meera_Nest_37
- 39.🔐 Is “Neem!Sand!Toast22” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 40.🔢 How many characters are in “Drum#Wheel#2009”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
Answer key
- strong
- FrogChaiMango70
- 14
- others can guess it
- 14
- risky
- weak
- 14
- 9
- weak
- strong
- Lamp!Fern!Lake25
- 3
- shorter than 12
- 17
- HillMangoTent30
- 12
- River_Seed_Leaf81
- shorter than 12
- shorter than 12
- 12
- weak
- has a common word
- 9
- shorter than 12
- weak
- emojis
- has a name or year
- 4
- tiger#kite#chai#89
- 3
- strong
- BellFrogNest26
- weak
- 1
- hill.lake.mango.86
- 17
- drum.vine.frog.30
- strong
- 15
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