The correct answer is Stronger governance with clearly defined component ownership.

The retirement exposing sparse documentation and no assigned owners is a classic governance and asset management failure. Stronger governance with clear ownership means assigning responsibility for each component, keeping an accurate asset inventory, and establishing procedures for lifecycle and decommissioning so that retirements do not reveal unknown dependencies.

More manual operational workarounds is incorrect because the scenario describes missing documentation and ownership rather than teams compensating with temporary manual processes. Workarounds are an operational symptom not the organizational improvement indicated.

Increased adoption of managed cloud services is incorrect because nothing in the scenario points to a migration to managed cloud offerings. The core issue is governance and ownership whether systems are on premises or in the cloud.

Reduced compliance and monitoring activities is incorrect because discovering gaps in ownership and tracking typically increases the need for compliance checks and monitoring rather than reducing them. The finding should drive stronger oversight not less.

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