Nutanix Certified Associate Practice Exam

When logically separating management and data traffic on a Nutanix cluster, selecting network segmentation is the correct approach. Network segmentation involves dividing a network into distinct segments or subnets, which can enhance security and performance. This separation ensures that different types of traffic—like management traffic, used for administrative purposes, and data traffic, which involves the storage and transfer of data—are kept isolated from one another.

This isolation is crucial because it helps prevent potential security risks where management interfaces could be exposed to untrusted networks. Moreover, separating the traffic can lead to better bandwidth utilization and performance since management operations typically have different network requirements compared to regular data operations.

Other choices, while relevant in different contexts, do not directly achieve the goal of logically separating management and data traffic as effectively as network segmentation. For instance, traffic filtering involves applying rules to control the traffic flow but does not inherently separate networks. Data encryption protects data but does not address the structural organization of network traffic. VLAN tagging can create separate virtual networks but is not as encompassing as network segmentation in ensuring that management and data traffic are separated logically within a Nutanix environment.