So, when I shut down the primary can I be assured all logs will be sent to standby and applied? (No standby log files) Or do I have to go and grab the log files from the primary, take the standby out of managed recovery mode, manually apply the logs from the primary and then proceed with step 2
If you don't have SRLs, stuff from your primary's online redologs will not get applied to the standby. You can choose to manually copy the redologs from the primary (after it was shutdown), and manually apply it to the standby. But why would you do that? It doesn't make sense to me.

1. If you don't use SRLs, your SLA pretty much states (implicitly) you don't care about the transactions in the online redologs.
2. After testing, once you perform step 5 - and put the standby in a managed recovery mode, it will continue from where it left off. Ofcourse, if there were any logswitches that occurred on the primary in step 3, you'd have to manually copy / apply them.

IMO, copying / applying online redo logs from primary to your standby in this case, doesn't really serve a purpose.