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.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Nisha@Drum@33 (b) ShipPearlLake53
- 2.🔐 Is “Lamp.Fern.2014” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 3.🔢 How many characters are in “Brick@16”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 4.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Lotus.Drum.2018” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 5.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “MangoBoatCorn42” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 6.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Ishaan!Sand!12 (b) hill.vine.river.57
- 7.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Mango.Corn.Rain89 (b) pondtoastmoon56
- 8.🔐 “Chai.Cloud.2008” 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
- 9.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Dust_Cloud_2014” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 10.🔐 Is “Lake-Lamp-2016” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 11.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) password88 (b) bell@lamp@neem@14
- 12.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “mangobelldrumboat” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 13.🔐 Is “Wheel!River!Pond62” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 14.🔐 Is “Mango.Brick.2016” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 15.🔐 Is “hill#lamp#pearl#77” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 16.🔐 By our rule, a strong password has at least how many characters? (a) 12 (b) 4 (c) 8 (d) 6
- 17.🔐 Is “lampferngold49” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 18.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Dust!Lotus!Cloud24 (b) password26
- 19.🔢 How many characters are in “Dust.Drum.2017”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 20.🔢 How many characters are in “brick@sand@pond@34”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 21.🔐 Is “welcome53” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 22.🧮 By our rule, how many kinds of characters should a strong password use at least? (a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 0 (d) 1
- 23.🔐 “cloudplumgoldmango” 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
- 24.🔐 Is “Rain@Wolf@2013” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 25.🔐 “Aarav@Rain@45” 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
- 26.🔐 “Qwerty!Corn66” 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 “Admin_Shell40”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 28.🔐 Is “Frog@57” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 29.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) lake@brick@hill@69 (b) Arjun.Rain.83
- 30.🎂 Why is a birthday a poor password? (a) it has symbols (b) it is too long (c) others can guess it (d) it is hard to type
- 31.🔢 How many characters are in “Diya2009”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 32.🔢 How many characters are in “WolfBellShip79”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 33.🔐 Is “raindrumvine45” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 34.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) boatcloudkite77 (b) BrickBellSand22
- 35.🔐 Is “Qwerty_Toast42” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 36.🔐 Is “NestMangoLamp59” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 37.🔢 How many characters are in “Vihaan2015”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 38.🔢 How many characters are in “plumnestshellcloud”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 39.🔐 Is “Hill!Gold!Boat38” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 40.🔐 Is “BellBrickPearl61” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
Answer key
- ShipPearlLake53
- weak
- 8
- 4
- 3
- hill.vine.river.57
- Mango.Corn.Rain89
- has a name or year
- 4
- weak
- bell@lamp@neem@14
- 1
- strong
- weak
- strong
- 12
- weak
- Dust!Lotus!Cloud24
- 14
- 18
- weak
- 3
- fewer than 3 kinds
- weak
- has a name or year
- has a common word
- 13
- weak
- lake@brick@hill@69
- others can guess it
- 8
- 14
- weak
- BrickBellSand22
- weak
- strong
- 10
- 18
- strong
- strong
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