Password Safety Knowledge Check

Quiz 8 min Beginner
Test your password safety knowledge with eight beginner questions about length, uniqueness, passphrases, personal information and safer password habits.
Suitable for
All Ages

This short knowledge check helps you review the most important password and passphrase habits from the HubEgg Digital Safety lessons.

Choose one answer for every question. After you submit the quiz, you will see your score and an explanation for each answer.

All password examples in this quiz are fictional. Never copy a password or passphrase from a public lesson or quiz for a real account.

Before you start

You may want to review How Strong Passwords and Passphrases Work.

You can also practise the ideas in Create a Strong and Memorable Passphrase.

How this quiz works

There are eight questions. Each question is worth one point.

A score of 80 percent or higher passes the knowledge check.

You may try the quiz again after reviewing the explanations.

Choose one answer for each question, then submit the quiz to see your score and feedback.

Question 1: Which choice is the strongest example for a password you need to remember?
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Question 2: Why should important accounts use different passwords?
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Question 3: Which information is usually a poor ingredient for a password?
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Question 4: Why is password length useful?
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Question 5: Which approach is better for creating a memorable passphrase?
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Question 6: What should you do with a passphrase example shown in a public HubEgg lesson?
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Question 7: When can a password manager be useful?
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Question 8: What should you do if you believe a password has been exposed?
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