Exams are designed to make bulk assessment easier. Ideally you would give students a day to do what is in a 2 hour exam and access to internet and papers - but

Exams are designed to make bulk assessment easier. Ideally you would give students a day to do what is in a 2 hour exam and access to internet and papers - but making that work would be very expensive to avoid cheating. At work you get stuff done rather than answer questions in a obscenely short amount of time