I documented every step as I went: the exact requests, the payloads, the timing, and why one approach failed while another succeeded. The exam wasn't a race to the first shell; it was a careful record of reasoning. I took screenshots, saved raw responses, and wrote clear remediation notes—how input validation could be tightened, how templates should be sandboxed, and which configuration flags to change.
I documented every step as I went: the exact requests, the payloads, the timing, and why one approach failed while another succeeded. The exam wasn't a race to the first shell; it was a careful record of reasoning. I took screenshots, saved raw responses, and wrote clear remediation notes—how input validation could be tightened, how templates should be sandboxed, and which configuration flags to change.