SNOW-CSA UI, Navigation and Forms Practice Question
A large enterprise has extensively customized the Incident table with many UI Policies and Client Scripts. After a recent upgrade, users report that the incident form takes significantly longer to load, especially on records with many fields. The administrator investigates and discovers that multiple UI Policies share the same condition but are defined separately, causing the condition to be evaluated multiple times. Additionally, there are several client scripts that also evaluate the same conditions. The administrator wants to reduce page load time without altering the functionality. The instance is running on a mid-sized deployment with no budget for hardware scaling in the near term. Which course of action will best address the performance issue?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Combine UI Policies with identical conditions into a single UI Policy with multiple actions.
Combining UI Policies with identical conditions into a single UI Policy reduces redundant condition evaluations, directly improving performance. Increasing timeouts only masks the problem, disabling client-side scripting removes functionality, and converting to client scripts may still evaluate conditions inefficiently.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Disable all client-side scripting and rely solely on server-side validation.
Why it's wrong here
This removes functionality that users rely on and may break existing business logic.
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Increase the system's form load timeout setting to prevent errors.
Why it's wrong here
This only increases the time allowed for loading, not the actual performance; the slowness remains.
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Convert all UI Policies to Client Scripts to move processing to the client.
Why it's wrong here
Converting all UI Policies to Client Scripts would not reduce redundant condition evaluations, as client scripts also evaluate conditions on the client side and multiple scripts with identical conditions would still fire separately, replicating the same performance overhead. This option is tempting because client scripts can run asynchronously and are often used for real-time field interactions, making them a correct choice when the goal is to offload server-side processing entirely, but here the problem is duplicated condition logic, not the execution location.
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Combine UI Policies with identical conditions into a single UI Policy with multiple actions.
Why this is correct
This reduces the number of condition evaluations, decreasing server load and improving load time.
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