A little lost....

seetee

I've been in the IT industry for over 20 years too, since 1996. Joined a start up in 1998, rose to Senior Director of IT Ops. We were acquired in 2011, but the mother ship closed my division in 2017. I left with a bitter taste in my mouth and decided to step away from IT for a little while. Probably a big mistake when I stepped out though. Now I want to re-enter, but I lack a degree. All I have is the AWS Solutions Architect Associates cert. I'm working on my CISSP but failed it a couple of times. So I took a step back and decided to shot for the Security+ first (Feb 1st.) and my AWS Dev Associates. Thought I would give you a little back ground first.

Question: Is the AWS SA Pro a lot harder? If so, what's a decent prep course? Btw, I helped design and manage a global real-time cloud service and worked/ran the developers, ops and support teams for many years. Unfortunately, testing is not my forte.

Clm

Have you considered trying to get one of the big consulting orgs

MontagueVandervort

I don't have a direct answer to your question, but I wanted to say welcome to the forum!

As for an "answer" to your question... I never think of one exam (same vendor/track) as being "harder" than the next but rather that it simply expects you to know more information on top of the information you already know.

That said, I spent about 10 min. on this page figuring out the overall "answer" to your question on a level that satisfied me, so you may wish to do the same:
https://aws.amazon.com/certification/

If it were me, I would just stick to the Architect path you already started... but again, that's just me.

Good luck!

SteveLavoie

With your experience, it would be easy to come back through sales engineering.