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