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 “Frog-Lotus-Lake76” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 2.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Moon-Hill-2013” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 3.🔐 “Gold!Kite!2016” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) has a common word (b) has a name or year (c) fewer than 3 kinds (d) shorter than 12
- 4.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “wheellakeboatcloud” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 5.🧮 By our rule, how many kinds of characters should a strong password use at least? (a) 1 (b) 0 (c) 2 (d) 3
- 6.🔐 “Drum.70” 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
- 7.🔐 Is “brick-vine-wheel-44” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 8.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Ishaan@Mango@20” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 9.🔢 How many characters are in “MoonBellSand18”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 10.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) sandseedbell32 (b) Tiger.Shell.Lake11
- 11.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Cloud-Drum-Gold23 (b) qwerty41
- 12.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Ananya2018” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 13.🔢 How many characters are in “Tara2010”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 14.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) qwerty14 (b) Leaf_Shell_Pond26
- 15.🔐 Is “Corn.Frog.2013” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 16.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “password47” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 17.🔐 Is “Pond#17” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 18.🔢 How many characters are in “Ship@Dust@Brick79”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 19.🔐 “Lamp-39” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) has a name or year (b) fewer than 3 kinds (c) has a common word (d) shorter than 12
- 20.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Meera2015” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 21.🔐 Is “Bell.65” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 22.🔐 Is “lamp!sand!tiger!23” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 23.🔐 Is “Admin_Tent43” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 24.🔐 Is “Kabir2008” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 25.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “sandleaftigernest” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 26.🔢 How many characters are in “TigerRiverPond24”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 27.🔐 Is “Meera_Bell_31” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 28.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Corn!55” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 29.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “vineplumriver45” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 30.🔢 How many characters are in “goldplumcloud40”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 31.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “password52” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 32.🔢 How many characters are in “Iloveyou!Gold15”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 33.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) drumshipleaf11 (b) ship!drum!pearl!43
- 34.🔐 Is “welcome74” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 35.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “moontenttiger18” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 36.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “drum@fern@wolf@65” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 37.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Arjun_Sand_17 (b) HillWheelShip66
- 38.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Ananya2018 (b) vine-gold-wolf-73
- 39.🔐 “Welcome-Tiger26” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) shorter than 12 (b) has a name or year (c) has a common word (d) fewer than 3 kinds
- 40.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) fern_shell_hill_18 (b) Diya2010
Answer key
- strong
- 4
- has a name or year
- 1
- 3
- shorter than 12
- strong
- 4
- 14
- Tiger.Shell.Lake11
- Cloud-Drum-Gold23
- 3
- 8
- Leaf_Shell_Pond26
- weak
- 2
- weak
- 17
- shorter than 12
- 3
- weak
- strong
- weak
- weak
- 1
- 16
- weak
- 4
- 2
- 15
- 2
- 15
- ship!drum!pearl!43
- weak
- 2
- 3
- HillWheelShip66
- vine-gold-wolf-73
- has a common word
- fern_shell_hill_18
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