one of my goals this year is to learn more about SQL. As part of that I have committed to taking the 70-461 exam which is the 1st exam for the DBA. I have picked up all of the exam material that I need by a company called Joes 2 Pros. The material is pretty straight forward and seems to be well written.
My next goal is to write up a timeline for studying the material and then get it all ingested to take the exam in the Aug time frame.
High level
April-Jun
study material and ingest
July
take practice exams
Aug
practice exams and parametric exam sometime around the 20th