ITPEC FE Subject A October 2025 Question 57
ITPEC FE Subject A October 2025 — Question 57 of 60
CIO (Chief Information Officer) is responsible for strategic IT planning at the company level — specifically, optimizing IT investment to support overall business strategy.
- •(a) ✓ — Correct: creating a plan to optimize IT investment effects across the company aligns with the CIO's strategic mandate
- •(b) — Describes an IT auditor, not a CIO; auditing department compliance is an audit function
- •(c) — Describes an IT support/helpdesk manager; handling queries and giving specific operational instructions is too low-level for CIO
- •(d) — Describes an IT operations manager; monitoring system development and giving improvement instructions is tactical, not strategic
Why not others: CIO operates at the strategy level (investment, business alignment), not at the operations level (system monitoring, query handling, department auditing).
Key rule: CIO = IT investment strategy aligned to business goals; confusable roles are IT auditor (b), helpdesk manager (c), and operations manager (d).
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