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 “Gold_Pearl_River67” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 2.🔐 By our rule, a strong password has at least how many characters? (a) 12 (b) 8 (c) 6 (d) 4
- 3.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “LampBellLake87” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 4.🔐 Is “Lamp-29” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 5.🔐 Is “Nisha!Lake!38” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 6.🔐 Is “dustfrogcorn68” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 7.🔢 How many characters are in “Iloveyou_Pearl13”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 8.🧮 By our rule, how many kinds of characters should a strong password use at least? (a) 3 (b) 1 (c) 0 (d) 2
- 9.🎂 Why is a birthday a poor password? (a) it is hard to type (b) it is too long (c) it has symbols (d) others can guess it
- 10.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Saanvi2010” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 11.🔐 Is “kite-pearl-brick-63” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 12.🔢 How many characters are in “Wheel-Rain-2017”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 13.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Ship!26 (b) Frog!Tent!Lotus35
- 14.🔐 Is “Brick@66” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 15.🔢 How many characters are in “shell_vine_lake_75”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 16.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Cloud@47 (b) Seed#Tiger#Neem13
- 17.🔤 Which is NOT one of the four kinds of characters? (a) emojis (b) capital letters (c) symbols (d) digits
- 18.🔢 How many characters are in “Password.Toast70”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 19.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Diya@Fern@53” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 20.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) ShellLakeFern29 (b) sandshelldustfern
- 21.🔐 “Tara_Corn_19” 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
- 22.🔢 How many characters are in “Lamp@47”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 23.🔢 How many characters are in “Tiger.Bell.Dust17”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 24.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Frog#Pond#Tiger42” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 25.🔐 Is “moon!vine!river!31” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 26.🔐 Is “Drum.Rain.Lamp31” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 27.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Neem-28 (b) rain!shell!lake!33
- 28.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Arjun!Vine!24 (b) CloudWolfFern27
- 29.🔐 “Qwerty_Lamp81” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) fewer than 3 kinds (b) has a name or year (c) shorter than 12 (d) has a common word
- 30.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) rain-bell-brick-29 (b) Neem.54
- 31.🔐 “Iloveyou-Cloud71” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) has a common word (b) fewer than 3 kinds (c) shorter than 12 (d) has a name or year
- 32.🔐 “Seed_82” 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
- 33.🔢 How many characters are in “Wheel!15”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 34.🔐 Is “Frog_Pearl_Kite42” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 35.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Admin!Frog27” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 36.🔢 How many characters are in “drum.lotus.neem.30”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 37.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Vine@Brick@Tiger15” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 38.🔢 How many characters are in “Iloveyou!River29”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 39.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) LakeChaiSand18 (b) Password#Plum72
- 40.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Meera2014” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
Answer key
- strong
- 12
- 3
- weak
- weak
- weak
- 16
- 3
- others can guess it
- 3
- strong
- 15
- Frog!Tent!Lotus35
- weak
- 18
- Seed#Tiger#Neem13
- emojis
- 16
- 4
- ShellLakeFern29
- has a name or year
- 7
- 17
- 4
- strong
- strong
- rain!shell!lake!33
- CloudWolfFern27
- has a common word
- rain-bell-brick-29
- has a common word
- shorter than 12
- 8
- strong
- 4
- 18
- 4
- 16
- LakeChaiSand18
- 3
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