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 “Nisha-Ship-48” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 2.🔤 Which is NOT one of the four kinds of characters? (a) emojis (b) digits (c) capital letters (d) symbols
- 3.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “dust.hill.rain.67” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 4.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Hill-18 (b) lamp-leaf-lotus-46
- 5.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Chai_Nest_Plum24 (b) Leaf.16
- 6.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) PondDrumFrog73 (b) Admin_Sand28
- 7.🔐 By our rule, a strong password has at least how many characters? (a) 8 (b) 6 (c) 12 (d) 4
- 8.🔢 How many characters are in “Corn-Leaf-2010”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 9.🔐 “Pearl!Wheel!2016” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) shorter than 12 (b) fewer than 3 kinds (c) has a name or year (d) has a common word
- 10.🔐 Is “Gold!Nest!Bell29” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 11.🔐 Is “wolf#kite#ship#16” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 12.🔐 “Password!Boat41” 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
- 13.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Lake!Lamp!Sand24 (b) Rohan2009
- 14.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “iloveyou14” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 15.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) rain-neem-lotus-45 (b) Aarav.Seed.18
- 16.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Vine-Rain-2013 (b) ShellFrogMango71
- 17.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “PlumGoldNeem29” 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) 2 (d) 0
- 19.🔢 How many characters are in “HillFernLamp48”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 20.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Letmein.Brick23” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 21.🔐 Is “Sand#Pond#Mango13” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 22.🔢 How many characters are in “Welcome-Boat25”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 23.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Tara!Lamp!10” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 24.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Corn.Lamp.Cloud10 (b) tentfrogbrickmango
- 25.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) pondseedcloudmango (b) chai@toast@pond@36
- 26.🔢 How many characters are in “Nisha@Wheel@80”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 27.🗝️ 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
- 28.🔐 “sandcloudmoon75” 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
- 29.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “admin67” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 30.🔢 How many characters are in “Meera2016”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 31.🔐 Is “Aarav-Brick-37” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 32.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) lake!lotus!leaf!66 (b) hillwheelcornmoon
- 33.🔐 Is “Brick_72” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 34.🔐 Is “Hill_Frog_Rain70” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 35.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Tent_56 (b) plum#gold#moon#68
- 36.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Kite@Ship@Tiger62 (b) hillneemseed12
- 37.🔐 Is “neem.chai.moon.89” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 38.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Welcome-Chai48” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 39.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Meera2008 (b) sand@pearl@ship@22
- 40.🔐 “Password!Fern62” 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
Answer key
- weak
- emojis
- 3
- lamp-leaf-lotus-46
- Chai_Nest_Plum24
- PondDrumFrog73
- 12
- 14
- has a name or year
- strong
- strong
- has a common word
- Lake!Lamp!Sand24
- 2
- rain-neem-lotus-45
- ShellFrogMango71
- 3
- 3
- 14
- 4
- strong
- 14
- 4
- Corn.Lamp.Cloud10
- chai@toast@pond@36
- 14
- in your head
- fewer than 3 kinds
- 2
- 9
- weak
- lake!lotus!leaf!66
- weak
- strong
- plum#gold#moon#68
- Kite@Ship@Tiger62
- strong
- 4
- sand@pearl@ship@22
- has a common word
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