Interesting question. The answer is definitely yes if they are making a video recording of the session with software like Monitor (from Blackboard) or Respondus. I hope you realize that such an action is academic dishonesty and compromises one’s ethics, whether or not one is caught.

Lockdown browsers (like Respondus) prevent doing a copy-and-paste function on the computer you are taking the exam with. I used to put java script statements in quiz and exam instructions that disabled these types of functions for the duration of the test. Then Blackboard prevented use of those statements (letting me know they are not that committed to test security).

But lockdown browsers can’t prevent you from taking a picture of the question with your phone. That’s why video monitoring is necessary. There are services that include wide-angle camera lenses or AI software to detect suspicious movement like that. These services flag such behavior. Then the professor only has to check those flagged segments to catch a student engaging in this academic dishonesty.