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.🔐 “Corn@Lake@2011” 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
- 2.🔢 How many characters are in “ShipDrumLake59”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 3.🔐 Is “Kabir-Rain-88” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 4.🔢 How many characters are in “Rohan_Lamp_17”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 5.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Frog_Lotus_Wheel13 (b) Kabir-Sand-12
- 6.🔤 Which is NOT one of the four kinds of characters? (a) emojis (b) digits (c) capital letters (d) symbols
- 7.🧮 By our rule, how many kinds of characters should a strong password use at least? (a) 0 (b) 3 (c) 1 (d) 2
- 8.🔐 Is “Vine!Chai!2009” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 9.🔢 How many characters are in “FernShipNeem12”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 10.🔐 “Aarav#Ship#71” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) fewer than 3 kinds (b) has a common word (c) has a name or year (d) shorter than 12
- 11.🔁 Using one password for every account is… (a) smart (b) risky (c) safe (d) required
- 12.🔢 How many characters are in “DustBrickVine32”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 13.🔐 Is “chai.wolf.cloud.48” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 14.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Rohan_Rain_80” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 15.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “password25” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 16.🔐 Is “hill-frog-tiger-70” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 17.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) pearlwolfferndust (b) sand-gold-rain-50
- 18.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “Rohan_Wolf_16” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 19.🔢 How many characters are in “VineFernChai46”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 20.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) ShellBrickLake48 (b) Tara@Frog@68
- 21.🔐 Is “LampFernMango68” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 22.🔐 Is “NestMangoDrum53” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 23.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “password50” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 24.🔢 How many characters are in “tiger@rain@drum@21”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 25.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) PearlMangoWolf32 (b) Admin.Vine88
- 26.🔢 How many characters are in “Moon@Toast@Wolf82”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 27.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Sand@Fern@2014 (b) Dust_Tent_Vine44
- 28.🔤 How many kinds of characters does “pondbrickwolf89” use? (small letters, capital letters, digits, symbols)
- 29.🔐 By our rule, a strong password has at least how many characters? (a) 4 (b) 6 (c) 8 (d) 12
- 30.🔐 Is “Leaf@Gold@River37” strong or weak by our rule? (a) weak (b) strong
- 31.🔐 Is “Fern@77” strong or weak by our rule? (a) strong (b) weak
- 32.🔢 How many characters are in “plumseedmango44”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 33.🔐 “frogshiptoastlake” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) has a common word (b) shorter than 12 (c) has a name or year (d) fewer than 3 kinds
- 34.🔐 “mangomoonhillchai” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) shorter than 12 (b) has a common word (c) fewer than 3 kinds (d) has a name or year
- 35.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) WheelDustKite46 (b) goldshellnestchai
- 36.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) hill!river!bell!76 (b) mooncloudtoast78
- 37.🔢 How many characters are in “Toast-23”? Count letters, digits and symbols.
- 38.🔐 Which password is stronger by our rule? (a) Rohan2010 (b) fern-rain-wheel-24
- 39.🔐 “belldrummoon20” is weak. Which rule does it break? (a) shorter than 12 (b) has a common word (c) fewer than 3 kinds (d) has a name or year
- 40.🎂 Why is a birthday a poor password? (a) it is hard to type (b) others can guess it (c) it has symbols (d) it is too long
Answer key
- has a name or year
- 14
- weak
- 13
- Frog_Lotus_Wheel13
- emojis
- 3
- weak
- 14
- has a name or year
- risky
- 15
- strong
- 4
- 2
- strong
- sand-gold-rain-50
- 4
- 14
- ShellBrickLake48
- strong
- strong
- 2
- 18
- PearlMangoWolf32
- 17
- Dust_Tent_Vine44
- 2
- 12
- strong
- weak
- 15
- fewer than 3 kinds
- fewer than 3 kinds
- WheelDustKite46
- hill!river!bell!76
- 8
- fern-rain-wheel-24
- fewer than 3 kinds
- others can guess it
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