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.🧮 By our rule, how many kinds of characters should a strong password use at least? (a) 1 (b) 3 (c) 0 (d) 2
- 2.🔐 By our rule, a strong password has at least how many characters? (a) 8 (b) 6 (c) 4 (d) 12
- 3.🔢 How many characters are in “RainWheelHill86”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 4.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Ishaan_Leaf_78” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 5.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) seed.cloud.river.53 (b) Drum-Moon-2010
- 6.🔐 Is “Admin_Kite34” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 7.🗝️ Where is the best place to keep your password? (a) on your notebook cover (b) in your head (c) on a sticky note (d) in a class chat
- 8.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “welcome56” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 9.🔢 How many characters are in “Aarav2015”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 10.🔐 “moonkitetoastmango” 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
- 11.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) SeedVineNeem12 (b) Tara_Toast_44
- 12.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Tent_Bell_Sand33 (b) plumbellfrog59
- 13.🔐 “Rain@18” 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
- 14.🔐 Is “Drum-24” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 15.🔐 Is “riverboattiger57” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 16.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Ananya-Bell-25 (b) Leaf-Drum-Brick35
- 17.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Tara2013” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 18.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) hillplumcorn81 (b) ToastKiteNeem60
- 19.🔢 How many characters are in “lamplakeseed21”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 20.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Welcome@Pearl64 (b) Tiger@Shell@Leaf86
- 21.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) TentPondLamp29 (b) admin25
- 22.🔐 “Diya!Boat!41” 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
- 23.🔢 How many characters are in “password10”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 24.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Cloud#58 (b) WheelTentMango41
- 25.🔐 Is “Pearl@35” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 26.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Brick_Seed_2017 (b) LakeLampNeem39
- 27.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Hill#Cloud#River32 (b) Drum.36
- 28.🔤 Which is NOT one of the four kinds of characters? (a) digits (b) emojis (c) symbols (d) capital letters
- 29.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Iloveyou.Lamp18 (b) Drum.Kite.Lotus51
- 30.🔐 “Ship-55” 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
- 31.🔢 How many characters are in “River.Plum.2017”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 32.🔢 How many characters are in “Moon-18”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 33.🔢 How many characters are in “Mango#32”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 34.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “goldkitebrick71” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 35.🔢 How many characters are in “Vine@Boat@Hill75”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 36.🔐 “Vine#67” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) has a common word (b) has a name or year (c) shorter than 12 (d) fewer than 3 kinds
- 37.🔐 “Vihaan-River-17” 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
- 38.🔐 Is “Seed_52” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 39.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “password58” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 40.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) BrickGoldVine53 (b) Ishaan#Kite#24
Answer key
- 3
- 12
- 15
- 4
- seed.cloud.river.53
- weak
- in your head
- 2
- 9
- fewer than 3 kinds
- SeedVineNeem12
- Tent_Bell_Sand33
- shorter than 12
- weak
- weak
- Leaf-Drum-Brick35
- 3
- ToastKiteNeem60
- 14
- Tiger@Shell@Leaf86
- TentPondLamp29
- has a name or year
- 10
- WheelTentMango41
- weak
- LakeLampNeem39
- Hill#Cloud#River32
- emojis
- Drum.Kite.Lotus51
- shorter than 12
- 15
- 7
- 8
- 2
- 16
- shorter than 12
- has a name or year
- weak
- 2
- BrickGoldVine53
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