Thanks for posting these. I’ve been using the interactive fretboard exercises at musictheory.net. But some good, old-school paper exercises can only help cement this stuff in my aging brain. 
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another good way is to simply sit with you bass. Pluck a note and say the note name while you pluck it. Grab a few others nearby, or do scales and say (out loud the note name as you play it. It’s boring but it works. Change the starting note of a scale and repeat ad nauseam.
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I keep an image of the neck notes on my computer and bring it up from time to time, it’s absolutely useful and a great tool to help you memorize. Don’t rely on it, reference it. It takes me a little bit still but I don’t have to use my reference much anymore. It helped me a lot on memorizing the neck
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And here I thought I was the only one doing that. 
Are you doing this for all 7 sharp and 7 flat keys or just the typical 5 sharp and 6 flat keys plus C?
this
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I do the 9 sharps and 10 flats because I watched a Victor Wooten video.
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When I practice writing them out I do all 30.
When I am teaching someone I give students either a chart showing all 30 Major Keys/Scales or else a 12 chord chart but replace the G♭ with F♯ primarily because with our instruments we usually play in F, C, or the sharp keys around the right hand side of the circle and I used to always get questions about the F♯ Key/Scale. Since doing this have never had anyone ask about the G♭ Key/Scale which is the same from a flat perspective.
Always knew you were special 
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We’ve been here before Percy. Time is a flat circle!
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Yes we have Cecil but some people still like having the complete picture and some people find it handy whether you care to acknowledge that fact or not.
Sorry Percy, but counting the same thing twice doesn’t mean there are two of them.
One pineapple is in the picture above. Or in French it’s called L’ananas. So two words, but one object.
F# or Gb, two different names but same note.
Stop me if I’m going too fast.
why stop there? there’s still a bunch more theoretical keys too! 
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Indeed. And don’t forget the German versions, which call Bb “B” and B “H”. That adds a few.
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Oh yeah and then there’s the Solfege notations.
Those French have a different wooed for everything!
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Well the British/Aussies and Americans both speak english and STILL have different words for the same things 
and we Canadians are stuck in the middle 
I never said there was Cecil.
Percy you can’t get to 30 keys unless you double count something.
12 notes in a scale. So 12 minor keys and 12 Major keys = 24.
But you just said there are 30. Is this special Ontario math?
etc
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I just read that @MikeC and they’re using enharmonics to get to 30, so double counting.
I genuinely want to know if there are more than 24 keys if we don’t count F# and Gb as two notes.