Question about using IntelliJ / PyCharm for SSH server

[jaeyeonkim99]

I am mainly using IntelliJ / PyCharm IDE for Java, React / Django.
However, to use these IDEs with SSH, I may first set deployment settings, which requires downloading the file to local project directory and connect it to server's directory to be synchronized.
I am wondering if this way of using SSH with above IDEs violate the rule that we cannot download exam questions to the local of your laptop even if I erase all the downloaded & connected file in the local after the final test.

Thank you.