City Guilds Model Questions Vol1 2024 Information Technology Question 17
Practice objective / multiple choice question 17 from the 2024 City Guilds Model Questions Vol1 Information Technology examination.
A system requires passwords of length 8 characters. The allowed character set consists of 26 lowercase letters, 26 uppercase letters, 10 digits, and 5 special symbols. The actual password chosen by a user contains exactly 2 digits, exactly 1 special symbol, and the remaining 5 characters are lowercase letters (no uppercase). Characters may repeat. An attacker attempts passwords by randomly generating strings that satisfy the same composition (i.e., exactly 2 digits, 1 special, 5 lowercase) with equal probability. What is the probability that the attacker guesses the correct password on the first try?
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This is City Guilds Model Questions Vol1 2024 Information Technology Question 17. It is one of the objective questions from the 2024 City Guilds Model Questions Vol1 Information Technology examination.
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