You need to show at least 5 years of experience in the covered domains. If you can’t, then you get an “associate” cert or something until you gain that experience and can then upgrade to the full cert. So you can still study and test and get the cert, provisionally.
So, I will get the cert, and I since I’ve been in IT for 30 years, I may be able to scrape together the required experience, lol. If not, I will quickly GAIN that experience.