Which is reasonable, since it's your time. But consider that I have three degrees in CS (BS, MS and PhD). I am employed doing CS research, primarily in systems and high performance computing. And for at least one question on each subject, I would not feel comfortable answering unless I referred to some reference. (Yes, even the architecture and systems questions, despite that being my "expertise": I can recall very little about coherence algorithms.)

The primary value of a formal education is, I think, not that you know a lot of stuff. Rather, it's knowing what you don't know. Knowing just enough to recognize "Oh, this is related to that other thing, I should go and read about that." I'm constantly doing that, as are the people I work with.

I understand. To gather data, you need manageable data. What will this data show you? What are you hoping to learn from this experiment? Perhaps I'm being a little cynical, but it seems to me that this information will tell you little about the craft outside of academia.

P.S. I've refrained from answering the exam precisely because I'd have to refresh my memory from online resources.