BOG AAS v TESU ASNSM CS

[xicovu]

What you think courses "should" count as, and what a school will bring them in as, may be vastly different.  I would apply and see what they'll give you before going forward.

I'm guessing that with your years of experience, you'd be better off at WGU going for a BS in Cloud Systems & Engineering.  If so, you'd want to do the A+ certifications through WGU-Academy (not WGU itself) and you'd pay $150/mo for the courses, and get the certs for free.  A great deal if you can finish in a month, as all of WGU's IT degrees require that.  They also take certs. VCP-DCV is 1 course (3cr), Google IT is 1 course (3cr), AWS has 2 courses, etc.

You might be able to get that degree, faster and cheaper, than the COSC or TESU AA/AS degrees (considering that you'll have to take a 12-week cornerstone course at TESU, and not sure how long the COSC cornerstone is, at least 8 weeks).

https://partners.wgu.edu/Pages/BSCLSA.aspx

The appeal of NOT doing all of it at WGU is I sometimes have to stop doing school for months at a time with no warning to study or learn new things, or travel. Doing it piece meal via these other ACE sources and turning it into an AS at COSC gives me that latitude. My work uses a "matrix" for internal promotions, raises, etc, so even an AS is going to help me out quickly. I do agree the WGU Cloud Sys Admin course is what I should get, I'd just like to get as close to 90 outside of the pre-paid term as possible.

As for the classes LL computer classes to make my de facto AS IT degree, I lined all of those up with the transfer requirements from WGU. That would leave 15 "real" credits at WGU + portfolio/capstone.

All that make sense?