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Codebusters Test VIP Certification Practice Exam

Codebusters Test Practice Test — Codebusters is a Science Olympiad competitive event (not a standardized certification) in which teams of up to 3 students solve a packet of cryptography problems — including aristocrats, Vigenère ciphers, Playfair, RSA, and other classical and modern cipher types — within a 30-minute window; this VIP practice set mirrors the event's knowledge domains in a longer, multiple-choice format.

28
Questions
45m
Time Limit
75.00%
To Pass
Question 1 of 28👑 VIP

A ciphertext reads 'OLSSV' and was encrypted using a Caesar cipher with a rightward shift of 7. A cryptanalysis team needs to recover the plaintext message. Decrypting by shifting each letter 7 positions to the left, what is the plaintext?

Questions 2–28 and full explanations are VIP-exclusive.