Front End Server Certificate Renewal

I would like to see if someone could offer simple clarification to a hopefully simple question.  My OAuth and Default Certificates are expiring soon.  

Can I request a certificate, using the wizard (which has worked before so no issues there) and effectively "stage" it to later assign during my scheduled maintenance window so I can simply assign and reboot?

It isn't exactly imperative that this works in exactly this way, it would just be nice to request the certificate and ease my workload later, sort of like staging system patches but with certs, ha ha.

Thanks.