Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
12 Hour(s) 34 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Arash Deljoo
Rating
Course Overview
A Complete Guide to Spanning Tree Stability, Optimization, and Troubleshooting
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), RSTP, and MSTP are among the most critical technologies in modern enterprise switching—yet they remain some of the most misunderstood. A single STP misconfiguration can cause loops, outages, or complete network meltdown. This course is designed to give you the confidence, clarity, and hands-on knowledge needed to prevent, detect, and troubleshoot these issues like a true network professional.
Whether you're preparing for CCNA, CCNP, or working daily with Cisco switches, this course will take your Layer 2 troubleshooting skills to the next level. You’ll learn how STP selects the root bridge, how port roles and BPDUs work, how convergence happens, and how advanced features such as PortFast, BPDU Guard, Root Guard, Loop Guard, UDLD, and more protect your network from misconfigurations and failures.
Through detailed explanations, real-world scenarios, configuration walkthroughs, and troubleshooting examples, you’ll gain a practical understanding of PVST+, RSTP, and MSTP. You’ll also learn how to optimize STP performance, fine-tune VLAN-based spanning tree settings, and simulate failures to understand network behavior under stress.
By the end of this course, you will be able to confidently identify STP problems, correct misconfigurations, design stable Layer 2 environments, and protect your network from loops and instability. If you want to strengthen your switching knowledge, improve your troubleshooting speed, or advance your networking career, this is the course you’ve been looking for.
Enroll today and start mastering one of the most essential skills in enterprise networking!
Course Content
- 9 section(s)
- 9 lecture(s)
- Section 1 STP Fundamentals
- Section 2 STP Advanced Concepts
- Section 3 STP in Action
- Section 4 STP Convergence
- Section 5 STP PortFast & BPDU Guard
- Section 6 STP Optimization
- Section 7 RSTP Overview & Configuration
- Section 8 MSTP Operation & Configuration
- Section 9 STP Protection Features
What You’ll Learn
- Understand STP fundamentals, including root bridge election, port roles, BPDU flow, and loop prevention.
- Analyze advanced STP operations, such as tie-breakers, alternate/backup ports, and PVST+.
- Interpret STP behavior in real networks, including mode selection and BPDU processing.
- Explain and tune STP convergence, including states, timers, PortFast, and interface behavior.
- Configure and validate STP enhancements, such as PortFast and BPDU Guard for improved stability.
- Optimize Layer 2 networks by adjusting root bridge settings, port roles, and VLAN-based STP parameters.
- Configure and troubleshoot RSTP and MSTP, including roles, states, instances, and VLAN mappings.
- Implement STP protection mechanisms such as Root Guard, Loop Guard, UDLD, BPDU Filter, and PortFast to ensure loop-free, resilient networks.
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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SSangram Swain
Very God course
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AAnton Shevchuk
This is a very good course. I understand all about STP/RST/MSTP prorocols on CCNP lelel.
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LLuis Miguel Bravo da Mata
Very good pace and smart guidance through real examples.
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JJude Fegbada
Content is well detailed and simplified for better understanding
