Certified Penetration Testing Professional (C|PENT)

During a kickoff discussion for a penetration testing engagement, a client's CISO argues that CPENT-certified professionals are valuable primarily because they possess deep technical exploitation knowledge. Based on EC-Council's stated proportion of skills required for a CPENT AI assignment, how should you correct this view?

A junior analyst confuses two related security activities. She uses tools to identify, categorize, and evaluate weak points in a system, then reports these findings as confirmed exploitable threats without further action. According to the distinction drawn in the source material, what did she actually perform, and what did she omit?