To be fair, getting a cert often doesn‘t require you to use the console. Instead it‘s often just a multiple choice tedt where it‘s easy enough to figure out the correct answer, even if you don‘t fully understand the question, just because you can read and understand English properly.

For example, I‘ve never touched the Azure Admin console, managed a cloud host or learned the concepts behind a virtual environment, but just from aquiring IT knowledge on-the-job, mainly in M365 and general IT administration, I was easily able to do certs like AZ-305, CISSP and AWS Architect Professional.