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Cyber Safety Worksheet: Strong and Weak Passwords

Cyber safety lesson 2: Strong and weak passwords · Set 68 · 40 questions
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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.

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  1. 1.🗝️ 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
  2. 2.🔐 “drumrainmango46” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) has a common word (b) shorter than 12 (c) fewer than 3 kinds (d) has a name or year
  3. 3.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Cloud#Lamp#2011 (b) Rain.Lotus.Mango44
  4. 4.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “lakedrumleafneem” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
  5. 5.🔐 Is “Leaf!Bell!River56” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
  6. 6.🔐 Is “Cloud_Moon_Vine67” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
  7. 7.🔐 Is “Lotus#Moon#Drum20” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
  8. 8.🧮 By our rule, how many kinds of characters should a strong password use at least? (a) 1 (b) 3 (c) 2 (d) 0
  9. 9.🔐 Is “Tiger.Fern.Dust28” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
  10. 10.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “chai-wheel-tent-36” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
  11. 11.🔐 Is “Lotus#Plum#Vine30” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
  12. 12.🔢 How many characters are in “lake@bell@corn@32”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
  13. 13.🔐 “rainplumgoldbrick” 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
  14. 14.🔤 Which is NOT one of the four kinds of characters? (a) capital letters (b) emojis (c) symbols (d) digits
  15. 15.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “MoonLakeBoat83” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
  16. 16.🔢 How many characters are in “boatcloudwolfhill”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
  17. 17.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Neem@Wolf@2009 (b) corn-cloud-lake-67
  18. 18.🔢 How many characters are in “leafwheeldust63”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
  19. 19.🔢 How many characters are in “Gold.49”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
  20. 20.🔁 Using one password for every account is… (a) risky (b) safe (c) smart (d) required
  21. 21.🔐 Is “rainlotusdrumfrog” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
  22. 22.🔐 Is “NeemNestWheel59” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
  23. 23.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) neem@rain@boat@68 (b) drumdustcornpond
  24. 24.🔢 How many characters are in “Rain#Moon#Tiger65”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
  25. 25.🔐 By our rule, a strong password has at least how many characters? (a) 6 (b) 12 (c) 8 (d) 4
  26. 26.🔢 How many characters are in “Lake@Kite@Pearl10”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
  27. 27.🔐 Is “chai!tent!leaf!19” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
  28. 28.🔐 “Kite#21” 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
  29. 29.🔐 Is “admin54” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
  30. 30.🔢 How many characters are in “Iloveyou@Neem24”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
  31. 31.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Tara2013” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
  32. 32.🔐 Is “neemraindrum12” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
  33. 33.🎂 Why is a birthday a poor password? (a) others can guess it (b) it has symbols (c) it is too long (d) it is hard to type
  34. 34.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) shell#gold#drum#27 (b) River_74
  35. 35.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) FernToastMoon32 (b) Chai#Wheel#2018
  36. 36.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) plum-chai-wheel-74 (b) wolfhillchai27
  37. 37.🔐 “nestpondfroglamp” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) has a name or year (b) shorter than 12 (c) fewer than 3 kinds (d) has a common word
  38. 38.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “tiger#bell#toast#72” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
  39. 39.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Shell!Chai!Neem20 (b) Nisha-Drum-75
  40. 40.🔐 “nestgoldkitefern” 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

Answer key

  1. in your head
  2. fewer than 3 kinds
  3. Rain.Lotus.Mango44
  4. 1
  5. strong
  6. strong
  7. strong
  8. 3
  9. strong
  10. 3
  11. strong
  12. 17
  13. fewer than 3 kinds
  14. emojis
  15. 3
  16. 17
  17. corn-cloud-lake-67
  18. 15
  19. 7
  20. risky
  21. weak
  22. strong
  23. neem@rain@boat@68
  24. 17
  25. 12
  26. 17
  27. strong
  28. shorter than 12
  29. weak
  30. 15
  31. 3
  32. weak
  33. others can guess it
  34. shell#gold#drum#27
  35. FernToastMoon32
  36. plum-chai-wheel-74
  37. fewer than 3 kinds
  38. 3
  39. Shell!Chai!Neem20
  40. fewer than 3 kinds

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