How I Passed the GH-200 Exam Without Increasing My Study Hours

I work in an Azure-focused systems and cloud administration role, so GitHub Actions was already part of my day-to-day life before I decided to take GH-200. I was not walking in as a beginner. I had already written workflow files, handled secrets, fixed broken jobs, and connected GitHub automation to real delivery work. That experience helped, but it also gave me the wrong kind of confidence. I thought familiarity would be enough. It was not. The current official certification page positions GH-2