Study for and Pass the AWS Solutions Architect Associate Exam

Accidentally leaving AWS resources running and incurring unexpected charges.

Set up AWS Budgets and Billing Alarms on day one. Always double-check that you've terminated EC2 instances and deleted NAT Gateways after labs.

Burnout from balancing a full-time dev job with 10-14 hours of weekly studying.

Protect your rest days. If you study heavily on weekends, take a Wednesday night entirely off. Listen to your body.

Memorizing practice exam answers rather than understanding the underlying concepts.

Never take the exact same practice exam more than twice. Focus on reading the detailed explanations for *why* an answer is right or wrong.