Taking the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA) Exam

After taking the G-Test on March 5, 2022, I felt that "signing up for an exam really motivates you to study," so on March 7, I impulsively applied for the Solutions Architect Associate exam.
I had only touched AWS for two days (through a free hands-on session), so I was almost a complete beginner at the time of application. However, I set the exam date for April 3, 2022, thinking that my motivation would fade if I scheduled it too far away.

Work at the end of the fiscal year left me with no freedom, and I started studying on March 29, which was cutting it very close, but I managed to pass today, April 3rd! Since I had many answers I wasn't confident in, I think I got lucky on quite a few of them.

For my studies, I used the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Practice Exams and followed this schedule at a pace of about 1.5 hours per day:

• March 29 (Tue): Chapter 1, first half of Chapter 2
• March 30 (Wed): Second half of Chapter 2, Chapter 3
• March 31 (Thu): Chapter 4, Chapter 5
• April 1 (Fri): Chapter 6
• April 2 (Sat): Chapter 7
• April 3 (Sun): First half of Chapter 8, actual exam

This book was very easy to understand. I liked that the explanations were provided right after the questions and that it explained exactly why the incorrect options were unsuitable. Based on my impression after the exam, the practice questions in the book were quite similar to the actual exam questions.
One area I felt was lacking (or not covered) in the book alone was specific details regarding ECS (Amazon Elastic Container Service) and EKS (Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service) (such as what the differences are and which one to choose in what situation).
I'll make sure to study those separately.