The Internet, Web services, corporate intranets, distributed computing, globalization of the economyall these have helped elevate the humble information systems guru to a corporate god: the Chief Information Officer. No longer just a service departmentnow we have a voice in determining the strategic goals of our employers. We are part of the corporate mainstream.

Listen up, CIOtime for truth or dare: Do you have the right stuff? Are you an effective Chief Information Officer, or are you just another suit with an attitude? We present here a simple quiz, designed to determine if you have the right stuff to be a CIO. Most of the questions are technical (duh!), some of them may have more than one right answer, some may be multi-part, and there might even be a trick one in there. See if you stack up. OK, lets play(turn up the dramatic music, please; dim the lights for effect)Who Wants to Be a CIO?

1. What was Gary Kildall doing when IBM officials visited his home with the intention of buying C/PM as the operating system for their yet to be built Personal PC?

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