City Guilds Model Questions Vol1 2017 Information Technology Question 33
Practice objective / multiple choice question 33 from the 2017 City Guilds Model Questions Vol1 Information Technology examination.
A corporate password policy requires passwords to be exactly eight characters long. Each character can be an uppercase letter (26 choices), a lowercase letter (26 choices), a digit (10 choices) or a symbol (10 choices). The policy also mandates that a password contain **at least one uppercase letter, at least one lowercase letter and at least one digit**. An attacker can test \(10^{9}\) passwords per second. Calculate the maximum time, in days, that the attacker would need to exhaust the entire search space that satisfies the policy.
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This is City Guilds Model Questions Vol1 2017 Information Technology Question 33. It is one of the objective questions from the 2017 City Guilds Model Questions Vol1 Information Technology examination.
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