A customer asks what happens to accountability when a model owner leaves the organisation. What should the consultant recommend?
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Short Explanation
Ownership shouldn't have a gap. The moment someone leaves, hand it to a named person, not to a queue or an expired record.
Full Explanation
The correct recommendation is to reassign ownership to a new named individual promptly, so the use case is never left without an accountable owner. Prompt reassignment to a specific person prevents any period where the use case has no accountable owner.
Leaving the use case unowned until a convenient time to reassign it is incorrect because a gap in ownership is exactly the accountability failure the process is meant to prevent.
Letting ownership expire and treating the entry as no longer requiring review is incorrect because it treats an active use case as if it no longer needs governance.
Transferring ownership automatically to whoever built the model originally, regardless of their current role, is incorrect because the original builder may no longer have the current context or role to act as accountable owner.
For the exam, remember that ownership transitions should be immediate and deliberate, never left to lapse.