A. The database user dump destination directory
B. The database diagnostic destination directory
C. To $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms
D. To $ORACLE_HOME/admin
E. To the directory and filename you specify in the command

A. Archive log generation is suspended until the tablespaces are taken out of hot backup mode. 
B. Datafiles are not written to during hot backups.
C. Changes to the database are cached during the backup and not written to the datafiles to ensure that the datafiles are consistent when recovered.
D. The datafile headers are not updated during the backup.
E. The way data is written to the online redo logs is unchanged during the backup.