An administrator has configured a VPC and associated a NAT external network.

The clean way to read this scenario is to separate what is merely present in the environment from the single Nutanix construct that actually satisfies the requirement. The correct response is C, meaning “Assign a Floating IP address to the virtual machine.”. A Floating IP is the normal mechanism for exposing a workload in an overlay-backed VPC to external clients. It preserves internal VM addressing while publishing a reachable external address through the VPC’s north-south path. In practice, this falls into virtual network design: VPC structure, subnet type, external network behavior, routing intent, and address exposure are what determine the result.

In other words, this is less about broad infrastructure suspicion and more about finding the exact Nutanix decision point that explains the behavior. Notice that A does not fit because it targets a different layer of the Nutanix networking and security stack than the one causing the outcome here. B does not fit because it targets a different layer of the Nutanix networking and security stack than the one causing the outcome here. In practice, administrators who anchor their decisions to Prism Central constructs—such as VPCs, external networks, ERPs, categories, and policy modes—arrive at the correct answer faster and avoid unnecessary changes.